Panicum curviflorum Hornem.
MG152 : Panicum curviflorum Hornem.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Panicum curvatum var. tenellum T.Durand & Schinz;
Panicum curviflorum var. suishaense (Hayata) Veldkamp;
Panicum deccanense Naik & Patunkar;
Panicum neesianum Wight & Arn. ex Steud.;
Panicum papuanum Mez;
Panicum roxburghii Spreng., nom. superfl.;
Panicum suishaense Hayata;
Panicum tenellum Roxb., nom. illeg.;
Panicum trypheron Schult.;
Panicum trypheron var. suishaense (Hayata) P.S.Hsu; |
| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | POACEAE |
| Description | : | Loosely tuftedannual, up to 90(-120) cm tall, hairy. Culms geniculate to spreading, terete, ribbed, smooth. Nodes yellowish green to black, glabrous. Sheaths terete, withbulbous based hairs, throatwith tuftsof hairs up to 2(-3) mm long. Ligule a row of hairs or scarious and collar-shaped, up to 0.8 mm long, abaxially puberulous with hairs up to 1.3 mm long, erose. Blades erecto-patent, usually flat, linear, abruptly narrowed into the base, 5.5-19(-30) cm by (3-)5-10(-12) mm, hairy on both sides, the lowerside more densely so, margin scabrous. Panicle erect, lax, 10- 50 cm long; main axis and branches semi-terete to angular, main axis smooth, the branches scaberulous; branches l(-3, sometimes immediately branching above its base), the lowermost longest one (2—)3—11(—16) cm long (the higher ones sometimes longer), naked in the lower 0.1-0.6thpart, with (8-)many spikelets. Pedicels 3—9(—13) mm long, scaberulous, sometimes with a short hair below the spikelet (see note). Spikelets ± paired, fusiform, yawning at maturity, 2.5-3.2 mm long, acuminate. Lower glume ovate with a clasping base, 1.5-2.1 mm long, 0.5-0.7 times as long as the spikelet, keeled or indurated towardthe acuminate apex, 5(-8)- nerved, midrib scaberulous. Upper glume 2.5-3.2 mm long, slightly shorter than to as long as the spikelet, apex ± acuminate, ± keeled, ± falcate, 7(-ll)-nerved, smooth. Lower lemma paleate, sterile, 2.2-3 mm long, 9-nerved. Lower palea lingular, oblong, 1.7-2.3 mm long, 0.6-0.8 times as long as the lemma, scarious. Upper lemmacupuliform, 1.5-2 mm,9-nerved, smooth. Upper palea as the lemma, 1.4-1.9 mm long, more flat. Lodicules obliquely obhastate, c. 0.3 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, indistinctly nerved. Anthers 3, linear, c. 1 by 0.2 mm,red (i.s.). Stigmas subapical, free, reddish-brown (i.s.). Caryopsis ellipsoid, 1-1.5 mm long; embryo about half as long; endosperm white, glassy. |
| 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 | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinids |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae |
| Genus | : Panicum |
| Species | : Panicum curviflorum Hornem. |