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Andropogon lividus
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Andropogon lividus Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 367. 1864; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 209. 1896; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1753(1215). 1934; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 345. 1988; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 29. 1991; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 944. 2009.
Cymbopogon lividus (Thw.) Willis, Rev. Cat. Pl. Ceylon 110. 1911.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Purple Grass
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Description:
Annual herbs, culms tufted, to 50 cm; nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-22 x 0.2-0.4 cm, adaxially glabrous, scaberulous abaxially and on margins, tip setiform; ligule ovate, scarious. Racemes 2-4, to 4 cm, subtended by linear-lanceolate bracts; sessile spikelet and pedicel of upper spikelet silky villous. Spikelets lanceolate, to 0.7 cm. Lower glume lanceolate, to 0.6 cm, shallowly depressed near base, glabrous, narrowly winged; upper glume linear-oblong, as long as lower glume, coriaceous, keeled; keel narrowly winged, margins ciliate; lower lemma oblong, ciliate, 2-veined; palea minute or 0; upper lemma oblong, deeply 2-fid, hyaline, ciliate, awned, epaleate; awn capillary, geniculate, to 1.2 cm. Pedicelled spikelets to 0.6 cm.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-February
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands at high elevations
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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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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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Walakkad, Umayamala, Anamudi slopes
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