Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG118 : Eremopogon foveolatus (Del.) Stapf

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Dichanthium foveolatum (Del.); Andropogon foveolatus Del.; Andropogon strictus Roxb.; Eremopogon strictus (Roxb.) A. Camus.;

Plant Common Name : Kadu marvel

Plant Family : Poaceae

Description : Tufted perennial with silky hairy basal sheaths; culms ascending, 15-80 cm high, wiry. Leaf-blades very narrow, 1-15 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or rolled, green or glaucous. Inflorescence a solitary raceme subtended by a narrow spatheole, these loosely aggregated on the culms; raceme 1.5-4.5 cm long, with 0-1 smaller homogamous pairs of spikelets at the base. Sessile spikelet narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4 mm long; lower glume cartilaginous, glabrous, shining, with a circular depression in the upper third, acute; upper lemma entire or minutely bidentate, its awn 12-18 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet with or without a pit. Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-September or December.

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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=250072348

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 :
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Eremopogon
Species : Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf.

Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf.
Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf.