Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Amphidonax tenella Wight & Arn. ex Steud. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Densely tufted perennials; culms 40-100 cm high, nodes glabrous. Leaves 30-60 x 0.3-0.8 cm, linear-lanceolate, flat, glabrous; margins serrulate, glabrous; sheath keeled, glabrous; ligule a row of hairs. Panicles 20-28 cm long, pyramidal, lax; branches filiform, glabrous. Spikelets 5-6 x 3 mm, pedicelled, glabrous; glumes equal, 3 x 1 mm, lanceolate, 1-nerved; lemma 5 x 1 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely hairy; palea 3 x 1 mm, 2-nerved, sparsely hairy; stamens 3, anthers 2 mm long.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Rocky grasslands
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Thrissur
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Zenkeria elegans Trin., Linnaea 11: 150. 1837; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1805(1250). 1934; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 471. 1989; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 363. 1991; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 528. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 85. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 552. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 362. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 405. 2002.
Information Listing > References
- Zenkeria elegans Trin., Linnaea 11: 150. 1837; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1805(1250). 1934; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 471. 1989; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 363. 1991; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 528. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 85. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 552. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 362. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 405. 2002.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Genus | Zenkeria |
| Species | Zenkeria elegans Trin. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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