Melanocenchris jacquemontii

🔄 Synonyms:
  • Melanocenchris royleana
  • Gracilea royleana
  • Amphipogon humilis

IUCN Status

Not Applicable : Not Applicable
Ravi Kant Saini
Author: Ravi Kant Saini

Hi, This is Ravi Kant Saini a passionate Botanist and a Researcher scholar from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. I used to actively explores the rich flora of Rajasthan, contributing to research and knowledge in the field. #Pseudo_taxonomist #PlantsofRajasthan #TeameFloraofRajasthan #RajasthanFlora 🌾 🍂 🌿 🪹 🪴 🍃 🪺

  • Grasses
  • Jaipur / Kota Bundi / Jodhpur
  • Naturally grown
  • Annual; culms fasciculate, rarely solitary, geniculately ascending, 6-25 cm high. Leaf-blades 1.5-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scaberulous above and on the margins, and with sparse whitish tubercle-based hairs at the base; sheaths with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Heads 5-10(-12) on a rhachis 24 cm long. Glumes, including the awns, up to 8 mm long, rarely longer, usually with white or occasion-ally purple hairs, the lower a little longer than the upper; lowest lemma 3-lobed, the lobes aristate, the central longer and narrower at the base than the laterals, 4-4.5 (-5.5) mm long; palea equalling the lemma or slightly shorter than it.

    Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-September.

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Plant Phenological Events

Month Phenological Events
July 🌼 Flowering

Systematic position

DivisionAngiosperm
ClassMonocotyledons
Sub-Class
SeriesGlumaceae
Ord
FamilyPOACEAE
SpeciesMelanocenchris jacquemontii
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Status: Casual Identification
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