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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Saccharum officinarum - L.
Family
Gramineae
Common Name
Sugarcane
Habit
Herb
Synonym
NA
Habitat
Cultivated
Color Of Flower
Pink
Key Characters
Perennial, grows in clumps.
Systematic Position
Division :
Monocotyledonae
 
Class :
Coronariae
 
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Plant Description

Perennial herb; culms erect, glabrous, waxy below the nodes, nodes tumid hairy; leaves linear-lanceolate, margins scabrid midrin very stout, sheath glabrous, ligule deltoid, membranous, ciliate; inflorescence a large pyramindal panicle no nodes bearded, rhachis breaking up at maturity, pedcels glabrous, spikelets conered with white silky hairs, calus with long hairs, lower glume equaling spikelet, margin inserted upper glums similar to lower; lower floret bisexual; lemma awnless, reduced; stigma purple; anther 3; coryopsis cyindial, purple.

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