Herb
🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Brief
Habit: Grass
Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
| Attributions | Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Annuals; culms 50 cm tall, geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves 10 x 1.5 cm, lanceolate, acute to either ends, aristate, glabrous. Racemes 5-10, slender, sub-digitate, 6-7 cm long. Spikelets similar, 4-5 x 1 mm, paired, one pedicelled and one sessile; lower glume 4 x 1 mm, elliptic, shortly 2-cleft at apex, 4-nerved, glabrous; upper glume 4 x 1 mm, boat-shaped, acuminate, 4-nerved; lower floret absent; upper bisexual; second lemma forms the hyaline base of the awn; awn 5-6 mm long; palea 0.5 mm long, hyaline; stamens 3; ovary elliptic, glabrous, stigma plumose.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Open areas, shady banks, pathsides
Banks of streams and margins of forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, West Bengal; Burma, China, Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Indian Distribution
Plains of Assam
Common in moist rocky patches of Middle Palnis 1300-1800msl, stream banks. India to Burma, China & Philippines.
Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
| Attributions | Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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Global Distribution
India to Myanmar
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Pollinia ciliata Trin., Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersb. ser. 6, 2: 306. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 116. 1896.
- Microstegium ciliatum (Trin.) A. Camus, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 68: 201. 1921; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1716(1190). 1934; Sur, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 6: 169. 1985; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 172. 1991; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 84. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 536. 1998; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 830. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 580. 2005.
- Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
Overview > Brief
- Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
Habitat and Distribution > Distribution > Description
- Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
Information Listing > References
- Pollinia ciliata Trin., Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersb. ser. 6, 2: 306. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 116. 1896.
- Microstegium ciliatum (Trin.) A. Camus, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 68: 201. 1921; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1716(1190). 1934; Sur, Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 6: 169. 1985; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 172. 1991; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 84. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 536. 1998; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 830. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 580. 2005.
- Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Genus | Microstegium |
| Species | Microstegium fasciculatum (L.) Henrard |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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