Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
MG117 : Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Andropogon halepensis (L.) Brot.;
Andropogon miliaceus Roxb.;
Holcus halepensis L.;
Milium halepense (L.) Cav.;
Sorghum giganteum Edgew;
Sorghum miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Barwad, Johnson Grass, Aleppo grass, Aleppo milletgrass, jowar, baru, chinna, bajara, jangli-jowar, huchhu jola, impi jola, kaadu galagu hullu, kahijola, gaddi janu, Johnson grass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Johnson Grass is an erect, perennial, rhizomatous grass, to 3.5 m tall. It is a principal weed of corn, cotton, and sugarcane, and a weed of many crops throughout the world. Leaf-blades 20-90 cm long; 5-40 mm wide. Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Inflorescence is a panicle with branches tipped by a raceme. Panicle are open lance-shaped or pyramidal, 10-55 cm long, 3-25 cm wide. Primary panicle branches are whorled at most nodes, moderately divided. Racemes are 1.2-2.5 cm long, bearing few fertile spikelets, bearing 1-5 fertile spikelets on each. Rhachis is fragile at the nodes, ciliate on margins. Rhachis internodes filiform. Rhachis internode tip transverse, cupuliform. Spikelets occur in pairs. Fertile spikelets are stalkless, 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels filiform; ciliate. Johnson Grass is native to eastern Europe, but now naturalized throughout the world.
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| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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 | : Sorghum Moench - sorghum |
| Species | : Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. |