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   MG116 : Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)

Plant Category : Grasses
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Eragrostis hirsutissima Peter; Eragrostis mangalorica Hochst. ex Miq.; Eragrostis retinorrhoea Steud.; Eragrostis strigosa Andersson; Eragrostis tenella var. viscosa (Retz.) Stapf; Eragrostis terebinthacea Kurz ex Stapf [Invalid]; Eragrostis transvaalensis Gand.; Eragrostis viscosa var. pilosissima (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Hochst.; Poa glutinosa Roxb. ex Stapf [Invalid]; Poa viscosa Retz.; Poa viscosa var. pilosissima Hochst. ex A.Rich.;
Plant Common Name : -
Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae
Description : Tufted annual; culms 10-40 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, 4-10 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, sticky on the keel and margins towards the base; sheath sticky below the collar. Panicle ovate to narrowly oblong, 4-15 cm long, glabrous or pilose in the ails, the branches sticky from yellowish oblong glandular patches to which grains of sand and debris adhere. Spikelets 5-15-flowered, ovate-oblong, 1.4-4.5 mm long, yellowish to purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate, subequal, 0.6-1.2 mm long, the keel usually thickened by a linear sticky yellow gland, acute; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 0.7-1.4 mm long, glabrous, broadly obtuse, sometimes obscurely mucronate; palea-keels ciliate with hairs 0.1-0.2(-0.5) mm long; anthers 3, 0.2-03 mm long. Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long.
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Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142
Reference : Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D., "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra", Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, ISSN2249: 9598,(2014) Volume IV, Issue II, pp. 155 to 165 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242320762
Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 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 : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)

Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)
Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)
Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)