Submission of Cenchrus setigerus
Lalithamba Avadhanam
Plant name: Cenchrus setigerus Vahl, Enum. Pl. 2: 395. 1805.
Ver.names: Birdwood grass, Dhaman (Eng.); Anjan gaddi (Tel.)
Family: Poaceae
Description:
Perennial herbs. Culms bulbous at base, geniculately ascending, 20–80 cm tall. Leaf sheaths keeled, scabrous; leaf blades linear, 2–20 × 0.4–0.8 cm, adaxial surface pilose with long scattered hairs. Panicle stiff, 4–12 × 0.6–0.7 cm, burrs overlapping by about half their length, rachis scabro-puberulous. Burrs broadly oblong with rounded base, 0.3–0.7 cm, subsessile; inner spines short, flattened, connate for 1/4–1/2 their length forming a tough cup, flattened free tips narrowly triangular, erect, grooved on inner the face, shortly ciliate; outer spines few, very short, often suppressed, reduced to bristles around periphery of cupule. Spikelets 1-3 in burr, 3.5–5 mm long.
Habitat & location: Occasional in dry sandy soils and low hills. Photographed at Nellore rural.
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A.Lalithamba
J.M. Garg
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From: Anil Kumar <crazyg...@gmail.com>
Date: 31 August 2016 at 15:19
Subject: Re: Fwd: [efloraofindia:250471] Submission of Cenchrus setigerus
To: "J. M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>
Hello
I think last 2 photographs belongs to Cenchrus biflorus