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Agrostis pilosula
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Agrostis pilosula Trin., Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersb. ser. 6, 6: 372. 1841; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1810(1254). 1934; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 324. 1991.
Calamagrostis pilosula (Trin.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 263. 1896.
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Description:
Tufted annual; culms (10-) 35-95 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes decumbent and rooting from the lower nodes. Leaf-blades flat, (3-) 15-35 cm long, (2-)3-6 mm wide, scabrid on both surfaces; ligule 4-6 mm long, truncate. Panicle broadly ovate to lanceolate, (5-) 10-30 cm long, loose and open or ± contracted, green or suffused with purple; inflated tip of pedicel smooth or almost so. Spikelets 2.5-3.5(-4.5) mm long, breaking up at maturity above the persistent glumes; glumes acute, awnless, scabrid on the keel; lemma hairy, 2-3 mm long, acute, awned; awn 4-6 mm long, bent, twisted below and arising from near the base of the lemma; palea not more than a third the length of the lemma; anthers 1-1.5 mm long.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-January
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Himalayas, South 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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