Brachiaria eruciformis (Sm.) Griseb.

🗒 Synonyms

synonym	Brachiaria cruciformis Griseb.
synonym	Brachiaria eruciformis var. divaricata Basappa & Muniy.
synonym	Brachiaria isachne (Roth) Stapf
synonym	Echinochloa eruciformis (Sm.) Rchb.
synonym	Milium alternans Bubani
synonym	Moorochloa eruciformis (Sm.) Veldkamp
synonym	Panicum anisostachium Bojer, nom. nud.
synonym	Panicum caucasicum Trin.
synonym	Panicum cruciforme Steud., orth. var.
synonym	Panicum eruciforme Sm.
synonym	Panicum isachne Roth
synonym	Panicum isachne var. mexicana Beal
synonym	Panicum koenigii Wight ex Nees, pro syn.
synonym	Panicum pubinode Hochst. ex A.Rich.
synonym	Panicum wightianum Arn. & Nees, pro syn.
synonym	Panicum wightii Nees
synonym	Urochloa eruciformis (Sm.) C.Nelson, J.Sutherl. & Fern.Casas

🗒 Common Names

No Data

📚 Overview

Overview

Summary

Herb

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Brief

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1 Year Assessed: 2010 Assessor/s: Kumar, B. Reviewer/s: Sadasivaiah, B., Bhat, G.K., Rao, M.L.V., Karuppasamy, S., Dahanukar, N. & Molur, S. Contributors: Molur, S. Justification: Brachiaria eruciformis is a common and a widely distributed species with no known major threats. It is therefore Least Concern. Conservation Actions: No conservation actions are known to be taken for this species.

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Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb

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Diagnostic

Diagnostic Keys

Description

Erect herbs. Leaves lanceate, 1.5-5 by 0.3-0.5 cm, pilose, margin scabrid, apex acuminate, sheath 2-4 cm long. Racemes terminal, cylindric, 7-9 cm long, branches triquetrous, winged, scabrid. Spikelet ellipsoid, secund-imbricate, densely pubescent, shortly stipitate; glumes unequal, membranous, lower glume a minute scale, upper glume as long as spikelet, 5-nerved, lower lemma 3-nerved, upper lemma crustaceous, smooth, 3-nerved; stamens 3. Caryopsis ovoid.

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SubSpecies Varieties Races

Diagnostic Keys

Description

No Data

📚 Nomenclature and Classification

Nomenclature and Classification

Taxon Record Name

References

Type Information

No Data

📚 Natural History

Natural History

Life Cycle

Cyclicity

Flowering and fruiting: December-March

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Miscellaneous Details

No Data

📚 Habitat and Distribution

Habitat and Distribution

General Habitat

Habitat

Terrestrial

Freshwater

Grasslands, moist waste places

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Habitat and Ecology: It is a annual, common weed in cultivated fields, sometimes grows in roadsides, damp places, ditches, waste places and also as weed of coffee plantations (Cook 1996, Lakshminarasimhan and Sharma 1991, Kabeer and Nair 2009). Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater List of Habitats: 5, 5.1, 5.2, 14, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15, 15.8, 15.9

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Grasslands

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Distribution

Description

Global Distribution

India: Assam, Punjab; Australia

Indian Distribution

Plains of Assam

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Range Description: B. eruciformis has a sub-cosmopolitan distribution; absent mainly from the northern parts of the northern hemisphere. It extends from Mediterranean Europe east through the Caucasus and Middle East to China. It occurs throughout much of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australia as well as the Caribbean and southern South America. In India it occurs in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Goa, Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan,Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal (Cook 1996, Kabeer and Nair 2009, Rao and Kumari 2008, Lakshminarasimhan1996). Countries - Native: Bangladesh; Bhutan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Croatia; Cyprus; Egypt; Ethiopia; France; Greece (Kriti); India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Indonesia; Italy (Italy (mainland), Sicilia); Jordan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malaysia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nepal; Nigeria; Pakistan; Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Philippines; Serbia (Serbia); Singapore; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Turkey; Viet Nam

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Global Distribution

India, westwards to Spain and North Africa

Indian distribution

State - Kerala, District/s: Pathanamthitta

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Endemic Distribution

No Data

📚 Occurrence

Occurrence

No Data

📚 Demography and Conservation

Demography and Conservation

Population Biology

Trends

Population: It is a common species throughout its range. Population Trend: Stable

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Risk Statement

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List Category

Least Concern

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Threats

Major Threat (s): No threats have been reported for this species.

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Legislation

Protection Legal Status

No Data

📚 Uses and Management

Uses and Management

Uses

System of Medicines Used In

Folk medicine

System Of Medicines Used In

Folk medicine

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Folklore

Management

No Data

📚 Information Listing

Information Listing

Species Resources

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN)

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

References

Brachiaria eruciformis (Smith) Griseb. in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 469. 1853; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1769(1226). 1934; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 564. 2005.
Panicum eruciforme Smith in Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Graeca 1: 44, t. 59. 1806.
Panicum isachne Roth ex Roem. & Schult. in L., Syst. Veg. 2: 458. 1817; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 28. 1896.
Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford.; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Kabeer, K.A.A. and Nair, V.J. 2009. Flora of Tamil Nadu - Grasses. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. and Sharma, B.D. 1991. Flora of Nasik District. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. (ed.). 1996. Flora of Maharashtra State Monocotyledons.In: B.D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan and N.P. Singh (eds), pp. 794. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Rao, G.V.S. and Kumari, G.R. 2008. Flora of Visakhapatnam District Andhra Pradesh. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.

D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=7264

http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford.; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Kabeer, K.A.A. and Nair, V.J. 2009. Flora of Tamil Nadu - Grasses. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. and Sharma, B.D. 1991. Flora of Nasik District. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. (ed.). 1996. Flora of Maharashtra State Monocotyledons.In: B.D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan and N.P. Singh (eds), pp. 794. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Rao, G.V.S. and Kumari, G.R. 2008. Flora of Visakhapatnam District Andhra Pradesh. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Citation: Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.

Information Listing > References

Brachiaria eruciformis (Smith) Griseb. in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 469. 1853; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1769(1226). 1934; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 564. 2005.
Panicum eruciforme Smith in Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Graeca 1: 44, t. 59. 1806.
Panicum isachne Roth ex Roem. & Schult. in L., Syst. Veg. 2: 458. 1817; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 28. 1896.
Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford.; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Kabeer, K.A.A. and Nair, V.J. 2009. Flora of Tamil Nadu - Grasses. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. and Sharma, B.D. 1991. Flora of Nasik District. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. (ed.). 1996. Flora of Maharashtra State Monocotyledons.In: B.D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan and N.P. Singh (eds), pp. 794. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Rao, G.V.S. and Kumari, G.R. 2008. Flora of Visakhapatnam District Andhra Pradesh. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=7264
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford.; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Kabeer, K.A.A. and Nair, V.J. 2009. Flora of Tamil Nadu - Grasses. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. and Sharma, B.D. 1991. Flora of Nasik District. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Lakshminarasimhan, P. (ed.). 1996. Flora of Maharashtra State Monocotyledons.In: B.D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan and N.P. Singh (eds), pp. 794. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.; Rao, G.V.S. and Kumari, G.R. 2008. Flora of Visakhapatnam District Andhra Pradesh. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Citation: Kumar, B. 2010. Brachiaria eruciformis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.