Cynodon arcuatus
MG103 : Cynodon arcuatus J.Presl
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 579 |
| Synonym | : | Cynodon intermedius Rang. & Tad. |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Widely creeping stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes. Culms slender, 20-80 cm high. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-15 cm long, 3-6(10) mm wide, glaucous, scaberulous, sparsely hairy at the base, auricles and orifices glabrous or pilose; ligule membranous, ciliolate on the upper edge, about 0.5 mm long. Racemes usually 4-8, 5-10 cm long, thin, flexuous, slightly drooping, in a single whorl. Spikelets 1.8-2.2 mm long; glumes lanceolate, 1-nerved; lemma pubescent on the keel and lateral nerves often with pointed clavate hairs; palea glabrous, keels smooth or rarely scaberulous; anthers about 0.5 mm long; caryopsis unequally trigonous and laterally compressed. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Bhimkund stream (Belkund) |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200025106 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Cynodon Rich. - Bermuda grass |
| Species | : Cynodon arcuatus |