| Many-Branched Muraina Grass |
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| File size | 77808 |
| Original date | 10/5/21 2:04 PM |
| Resolution | 640 x 480 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 77.02mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ70 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Triplopogon ramosissimus Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Ischaemum ramosissimum, Sehima ramosissima, Triplopogon spathiflorus
Synonyms: Ischaemum ramosissimum, Sehima ramosissima, Triplopogon spathiflorus
Many-Branched Muraina Grass is an annual grass with
stems erect, 100-180 cm long; with prop roots. Ligule is a membrane
efringed with hairs; 1.5 mm long. Leaf-blade base with a false
leaf-stalk. Leaf-blades is lanceshaped; 30-60 cm long; 15-35 mm wide;
flaccid. Leaf-blade surface velvet-hairy; hairy on both sides.
Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Synflorescence compound; fastigiate.
Inflorescence is composed of racemes; at branch-ends and in leaf-axils;
subtended by a spatheole. Spatheole linear; 6-8 cm long; herbaceous.
Racemes 1; single; 4-5 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes;
flattened; fringed with hairs on margins. Rhachis internodes linear.
Rhachis internode tip transverse. Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets
stalkless; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets stalked; 1 in
the cluster. Flower-stalks linear; flattened; 5 mm long; fringed with
hairs. Many-Branched Muraina Grass is probably endemic to Maharashtra.
| Identification credit: Manoj Chandran | Photographed in Nasik, Maharashtra. |
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