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Urochloa setigera
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa 9: 598. 1920; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1775(1230). 1934.
Panicum setigerum Retz., Obs. Bot. 4: 15. 1786.
Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb. in Hook., Ic. Pl. 34: 2, t.3363. 1938; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 342. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 921. 1990.
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Description:
Culms ascending from a prostrate, straggling base, to 50 cm; nodes pubescent to villous. Leaf-blades 5-12 x 0.6-2 cm, glabrous, margins scabrid and basally long ciliate; ligule to 0.1 cm. Racemes 4-7, obliquely erect, to 5 cm, subsessile; rachis to 0.3 cm wide, angular, scabrid. Spikelets lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, glabrous; pedicels to 0.15 cm, usually with a few bristles. Lower glume broadly ovate, to 0.15 cm, 3-5-veined; upper glume ovate-lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, 7-9-veined. Lower lemma 5-veined; palea broadly oblong, to 0.4 cm, acuminate; upper lemma broadly elliptic, to 0.3 cm, mucro to 0.02 cm.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-
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District(s):
Malappuram, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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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