- Family : GRAMINEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Pappophorum cenchroides Licht.; Enneapogon abyssinicus (Hochst.) Rendle; Enneapogon mollis Lehm.; Pappophorum abyssinicum Hochst.; Pappophorum cenchroides var. albescens Schweinf.; Pappophorum molle (Lehm.) Kunth; Pappophorum robustum Hook.f.; Pappophorum senegalense Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Enneapogon cenchroides (Licht.) C.E.Hubb.
- Habit : Herb
- Key identification features : An annual grass with stems 50-80 cm, about 2 mm thick, erect or somewhat geniculate at the base; nodes velvet-hairy; Sheaths shorter than the internodes, somewhat loose; blades flat, becoming involute, apices narrowed; Panicles 10-20 cm long, to 3 cm wide at the base, loosely contracted to somewhat open; Spikelets 3.2-6.8 mm, 3-veined; lowest lemmas usually exceeding the glumes; anthers 1-1.8 mm long.
- Flower, Fruit : January- May
- Distribution :
- Native : Angola, Ascension, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zi
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Ascension, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe
- Literature :
- Photographs of Dinesh Valke
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Enneapogon cenchroides. Downloaded on 15 October 2024.
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