Tripsacum dactyloides – eFlora of India

September 28, 2018
Tripsacum

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10 2: 1261 1759. (syn: Coix angulata Mill.; Coix dactyloides L.; Dactylodes angulatum Kuntze; Dactylodes dactyloides (L.) Kuntze; Ischaemum glabrum Walter; Tripsacum bravum J.R.Gray; Tripsacum compressum E.Fourn. [Invalid]; Tripsacum dactyloides var. dactyloides ; Tripsacum dactyloides subsp. dactyloides ; Tripsacum dactyloides var. floridanum (Vasey) Beal; Tripsacum dactyloides subsp. hispidum Hitchc.; Tripsacum dactyloides var. hispidum (Hitchc.) De Wet & J.R.Harlan; Tripsacum dactyloides var. meridionale De Wet & Timothy; Tripsacum dactyloides var. mexicanum De Wet & J.R.Harlan; Tripsacum dactyloides var. monostachyon (Willd.) Eaton & Wright; Tripsacum dactyloides var. monostachyum (Willd.) Hack.; Tripsacum dactyloides var. occidentale Cutler & E.S.Anderson; Tripsacum dactyloides f. prolificum R.S.Dayton & Dewald; Tripsacum floridanum Porter ex Vasey; Tripsacum monostachyon Willd.);

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Cultivated grass: I’d pls : 9 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1)- 3 MB.

Location Gujarat
Cultivated grass
Date 4.9.2018
Seeds coming from Punjab side

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Kindly look in genus Ischaemum. May be I. compresum

It is called Gama grass – Tripsacum dactyloides

References:

Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP IPNI
Wikipedia PFAF Tropical Forages Go Botany

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