Grass Week : AR14 Tall-grasses from hilltops

[raghu ananth]

Grass Week : AR14 Tall-grasses from hilltops

Sorry for the picture quality, just curious to know the grass kinds in this hilly habitat.

Height : 3 feet approx., 

Habitat : hill top, grasslands, shola,

Date: December 25, 2007 

Time : between 17:15 and 18.00

Location: Muthodi- Mullaiyanagiri  hills

Western Ghats, 

Chikka magalur district

Karnataka

Regards

Raghu

[Mayur Nandikar]

Hello

It mixture of many grasses but i feel the larger one is some species of Pennisetum

--
Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

“It mixture of many grasses but i feel the larger one is some species of Pennisetum” from Mayur ji.

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A reply:

"Looks like a cultivated land.  The dominating grass (crop) is Setaria italica

Dr. P. Ravichandran"