Oropetium roxburghianum (Steud.) S.M. Phillips
MH387 : Oropetium roxburghianum (Steud.) S.M. Phillips
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | - |
| Synonym | : | Lepturus roxburghianus (Schult.) Steud.;
Rottboellia biflora Roxb., nom. illeg.;
Rottboellia roxburghiana Schult.;
Tripogon roxburghianus (Schult.) Bhide.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae |
| Description | : | Erect Herbs tufted with filiform leaves and solitary spikes. Perennial; caespitose. Butt sheaths persistent and investing base of culm; with fibrous dead sheaths. Culms erect; 10–25 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; convolute; 1–4 cm long; 0.2–0.5 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 1; single; smoothly terete; 4–10 cm long. Rhachis fracturing into irregular segments; subcylindrical and excavated. Spikelet packing adaxial; regular; 2 -rowed. Spikelets sunken; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension, or with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus pubescent. Glumes deciduous; dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume oblong; 0.75 mm long; 0.2–0.4 length of upper glume; hyaline; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex truncate. Upper glume lanceolate; 2–4 mm long; 1–1.6 length of adjacent fertile lemma; coriaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute. Fertile lemma oblong; 2–2.5 mm long; hyaline; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; hairy below. Lemma apex dentate; 2–3 -fid. Palea hyaline; 2 -veined. Rhachilla extension 0.1 length of fertile floret. Apical sterile florets 1 in number; male; oblong; 1.5–2 mm long. FLOWER Anthers 3; 0.5–1 mm long. FRUIT Caryopsis with tardily free pericarp; fusiform; 1 mm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Patkao, Tarubanda |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Londhe, A.N., Watve, A.V. & Ansari, M.Y. 2002. “Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve”. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 385 to 395
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-426528
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/253033
- http://static1.kew.org/data/grasses_db/www/imp06777.htm |
| Reference | : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 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 | : Oropetium |
| Species | : Oropetium roxburghianum (Steud.) S.M. Phillips |