Grass-9: Heteropogon

[Vijayasankar]

Heteropogon contortus, one of the major component species of grasslands amidst woodland savannah forests in Tiruvannamalai district, TN.

Do you know any interesting feature of this grass?

 

Regards

 

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018

[Muthu Karthick]

Yes sir, the charater of fruits, the twisted awns gets unwinded whilst contact with water. Is the latin name means this?

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[Pankaj Kumar]

Heteropogon contortus (L.) Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed.
15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 2: 836. 1817

Basionym:
Andropogon contortus L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1045. 1753

Type: Lectotype = "Gram. Secalinum, Indicum, spica gracili, tomentoso,
aristis longioribus, ad se invicem intortis" in Plukenet,
Phytographia, t. 191, f. 5, 1692

Regards
Pankaj

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

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