Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG125 : Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult.

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Panicum miliare auct. non Lam.; Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. psilopodium (Trin.) Wet. Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. sumatrense

Plant Common Name : Little Millet,

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Annual. Culms erect or decumbent, 20–60(–150) cm tall, nodes dark in color, glabrous. Leaves cauline; leaf sheaths loose, glabrous; leaf blades linear, flat, 8–40 × 0.4–0.8 cm, glabrous, base cordate to straight, apex acute or tapering; ligule ca. 1 mm, a ciliolate membrane. Panicle terminal, oblong or ovate in outline, 10–40 cm, densely branched and drooping or sparsely branched and erect; branches slender, scaberulous. Spikelets oblong in outline, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous; lower glume broadly ovate or cufflike, 1/4–1/3 length of spikelet, 3-veined, bluntly acute; upper glume as long as spikelet, 9–13-veined; lower lemma similar to upper glume, palea present or absent; upper floret brown or yellow, smooth, shiny. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 54.

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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=2&taxon_id=242335678

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
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Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Panicum
Species : Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)

Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)
Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)
Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)
Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)