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Aeluropus lagopoides
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 374.1864; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1843(1276).1934; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 321. 1991.
Dactylis lagopoides L., Mant. Pl. 1: 33. 1767.
Aeluropus villosus Trin. ex C.A. Mey., Verz. Pfl. Canc. 18. 1831; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 334. 1896.
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Description:
Rhizomatous perennial; culms up to 15 cm high, erect or creeping at the base. Leaf-blades narrow, spreading, subdistichous, up to 4 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, rigid, pungent, glabrous or pilose, margins scabrid. Panicle a globose, elliptic or oblong head of densely crowded spikelets, up to 2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide. Spikelets 4-8-flowered, elliptic-oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide. Glumes elliptic, unequal, villous, the lower 1-3-nerved, about 1.5 mm long, the upper 3-5-nerved, about 2 mm long; lemmas broadly elliptic, apiculate, 9-nerved, 2.4-2.8 mm long, villous; lowest lemmas sometimes empty; anthers 1.5 mm long.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-July
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Salt marshes, coastal sands and alkaline soils
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Distribution:
North Africa, from Morocco to Somalia; Central Asia, Pakistan and India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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