Panicum antilotale (Rtz)
MG124 : Panicum antidotale Retz.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Panicum attenuatum.;
Panicum proliferum.;
Panicum miliare tam. |
| Plant Common Name | : | ghamur, blue panicgrass, Gharam, giant panic, Dhusdo, dhusghas, kutki, Gunara, hadjodi, garmano, ghirano, Git, male, girni, nassiam pillu, pinisu pillu, picai, picappul, |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Perennial with creeping woody rootstock; culms (30)90-180 cm high, woody, erect or ascending, usually branched, the lower internodes often pruinose. Leaf-blades linear, 6-30 cm long, (2.5)4-14 mm wide, flat, glabrous, sharply pointed. Panicle narrowly pyramidal to broadly oblong or ovate, 13-32 cm long, varying from copiously, branched with the branches subverticillate to sparingly branched with the spikelets condensed about the distant branches. Spikelets elliptic, 2.4-3.2 (-3.6) mm long, glabrous, acute; lower glume broadly ovate, membranous with broad hyaline margins, half to two-thirds as long as the spikelet, rarely less, 3-5-nerved, acute; upper glume with broad hyaline margins, 7-9(-11)-nerved; lower lemma 7-9-nerved, its palea almost as long; upper lemma pallid, smooth and shining. Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-October. |
| 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
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242335510 |
| 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 / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Panicum |
| Species | : Panicum antilotale (Rtz) |