| Western Ghats Muraina Grass |
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| File size | 448421 |
| Original date | 11/12/19 3:31 AM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ischaemum dalzellii Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Western Ghats Muraina Grass is an annual grass with stems
sharply rising up, or prostrate, 30-50 cm long. Ligule is an efringed
with hairs membrane; 4 mm long; hairy on lower surface. Leaf-blade base
with a false leaf-stalk; leaf-stalk 1-5 cm long. Leaf-blades 3-7 cm
long; 7-14 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface hairy; hairy on both sides; with
tubercle-based hairs. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Inflorescence is
composed of racemes. Racemes 2; paired; 2-3 cm long. Rachis fragile at
the nodes; semiround; fringed with hairs on margins. Rachis internodes
are club-shaped; 3.5 mm long. Rachis internode tip transverse;
cupuliform. Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets are stalkless; 1 in
the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets are stalked; 1 in the cluster.
Flower-stalks oblong; 0.5 mm long; 0.1 length of fertile spikelet;
fringed with hairs. Western Ghats Muraina Grass is native to SW India and
Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Amboli, Maharashtra. |
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