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Brachiaria villosa
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Brachiaria villosa (Lam.) A. Camus in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 7: 433. 1922; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 834. 1997.
Panicum villosum Lam., Tab. Encycl. 1: 173. 1791, p.p.
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Description:
Annuals herbs, culms erect or geniculate, 9-25 cm tall; nodes bearded. Leaf: sheaths densely hirsute with tuberculate hairs, 1.2-3.7 cm long; ligule ciliate; blades ovate-oblong, 0.8-4 x 0.3-1.2 cm, densely hirsute on both surfaces, margins undulate, scaberulous, apex subacute. Racemes 2-7, erect or ascending, 0.3-1.2 cm long; rachis slender, triquetrous, flexuous, hairy. Pedicels short, with long hairs. Spikelets broadly ovate-oblong, 2-2.5 mm long; lower glume thinly membranous, broadly ovate-elliptic, 0.7-1 mm long, obscurely nerved, hispid on the back, apex rounded; upper glume membranous, elliptic, 1.2-1.8 mm long, gibbous, 3-5-nerved, hispid, with subapical fringe of bristle like hairs on the back, apex mucronulate; lower lemma membranous, ovate-oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, 3-5 nerved, hispid, with subapical fringe of bristle like hairs on the back, 2-keeled, apex mucronate; palea hyaline, oblong, 1.4-1.8 mm long, 2-keeled, margins inflexed, apex truncate; upper lemma coriaceous, broadly elliptic-oblong, 1.4-1.8 mm long, 5-nerved, glabrous, minutely rugulose, apex acute; palea chartaceous, broadly elliptic-oblong, 1.4-1.8 mm long, margins inflexed, apex acute. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3; anthers 0.8-1 mm long. Ovary linear, 0.5 mm long. Grain globose, 1. 1x 0.8 mm.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-November
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District(s):
Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Tropical Asia
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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:
Chokkad
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