is this the plant that sticks its seeds to pants hems or sari hemms as one walks thru um-mowed grassy areas... ??/
Usha di ======== On Sep 2, 7:16 am, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for clarification Sir > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That is B. pertusa, Balkar ji > > But easily confused with Dichanthium annulatum. > > > -- > > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Retired Associate Professor > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I think this is common in plains also > > >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > > >>> *Bothriochloa ischaemum *(L.) Keng, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, > >>> Bot. Ser. 10:201. 1936 > >>> syn: *Andropogon ischaemum* L.; *Dichanthium ischaemum* (L.) Roberty > > >>> Tufted perennial herb mostly basal leaves; stems erect or geniculately > >>> ascending, up to 60 cm high. Leaf-blades up to 15 cm long, 2-4 mm wide. > >>> Inflorescence with 5-13 subdigitate 4-6 cm long racemes; shortly > >>> pedunculate, the peduncles glabrous. Sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate, > >>> 3.5-5 mm long; lower glume chartaceous, hairy below the middle, not > >>> glossy, > >>> without a pit, acute; awn 12-15 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet glabrous on > >>> the > >>> back, without a pit. > > >>> Common in lawns in Kashmir. Photographed from Srinagar and Baramulla in > >>> Kashmir in June. > > >>> -- > >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh > >>> Retired Associate Professor > >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >>>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > >> -- > >> Regards > > >> Dr Balkar Singh > >> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > >> Arya P G College, Panipat > >> Haryana-132103 > >> 09416262964 > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964
