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Andropogoneae
Pseudosorghum fasciculare (Roxb.) A.Camus
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Damp places; below 1000 m.
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Flowering and fruiting: September-December
Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb
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Global Distribution
India and Myanmar
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki, Thrissur
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Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].
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Nepal, India, Burma, S.E. Asia.
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Plant tufted. Culms slender, erect or ascending, up to 2 m, many-noded, simple or branched below, nodes glabrous. Leaf sheaths usually with tubercle-based hairs; leaf blades linear, 10–40 × 0.4–1 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, margins scaberulous, apex acute; ligule 2–4 mm. Inflorescence 4–13 cm, fascicles with up to 10 racemes; racemes composed of 5–15 spikelet pairs. Sessile spikelet 3.8–4.5 mm, yellowish or purplish; lower glume smooth, glossy, scabrid-puberulous near apex; upper slightly longer than lower; upper lemma ca. 2 mm; awn 1.2–1.8 cm. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceolate, male or barren, glumes sometimes enclosing hyaline lemmas.
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"Perennials; culms 90-100 cm high, loosely tufted; nodes glabrous. Leaves 15-40 x 0.8-1.2 cm, linear-lanceolate, glabrous; sheath keeled; ligule membranous. Panicle 5-13 cm long, congested. Spikelets dissimilar, sessile spikelets 4-5 mm long, lanceolate; callus hairy; lower glume 4 x 1.5 mm, lanceolate; florets 2; lower floret empty, upper bisexual; first lemma oblong, chartaceous, epaleate; second lemma 2-cleft at apex, awned; awn 14-18 mm long; stamens 3; styles 2, free; stigmas plumose. Pedicelled spikelets 4-5 mm long, lanceolate; floret one, male."
Andropogon fascicularis Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 1: 269. 1820; A. tonkinensis Balansa; A. zollingeri Steudel; Bothriochloa gra-cilis W. Z. Fang; B. yunnanensis W. Z. Fang; Pseudosorghum zollingeri (Steudel) A. Camus; Sorghum fasciculare (Roxburgh) Haines; S. zollingeri (Steudel) Kuntze.
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Type fragment for Andropogon gangeticus Hack. in A. DC.
Catalog Number: US 76225
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. F. Duthie
Locality: Div. Tschanda., India, Asia-Tropical
- Type fragment: Hackel, E. 1889. Monogr. Phan. 6: 539.
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