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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Cenchrus ciliaris - L.
Family
Gramineae
Common Name
grass
Habit
Synonym
Habitat
Color Of Flower
Key Characters
Systematic Position
Division :
Monocotyledonae
 
Class :
Glumaceae
 
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Plant Description

Annual or perennial herb, culms erect or decumbent; leaves linear, glabrous, sheath loose, glabrous, ligule a rim of hairs, in florescence a raceme, pale or purplish; involucral bristles free, scabrid, puberulous; spikelets 1-3 in each involucre; lower lemma ovate-lanceolate, cuspidatly acuminate, 3-5 nerved, upper lemna similar of lower, membranous, 5-7 nerved; palea lancelate, membranous; anthers-3, yellow, fruit a caryopsis dorsally compressed, truncate.

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