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Published In: Observationes Botanicae 4: 17. 1786. (1786-1787) (Observ. Bot.) Name publication detail
 
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-October.
Type: Type: India, Koenig.
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); tropical Africa; Arabia, through Iran and Afghanistan to India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Panicum antidotale is found throughout Pakistan, particularly in desert regions. It is an excellent sand binder, but of doubtful value as fodder.
Map Location: B-7 Kashmir: Muzaffarabad, 2000', October 1953, Conservator of Forests s.n. (RAW); Hazara dist.: Khanpur, 14 September 1957, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); Swat dist.: Najigram, 3000', R.R. Stewart & A. Rahman Beg 25422(K, RAW); C-6 Peshawar dist.: Matanni, between Kohat and Peshawar, M. Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 5786(KUH); C-7 Attock dist.: Khairabad, R.R. Stewart 27834 (K,KUH); Rawalpindi dist.: Topi Park, 1700', R.R. Stewart 23420(K); ibid., Mohindar Nath, 54 (RAW); Sargodha dist.: Kheora, c.950', Kabir 14751(K); c.3 miles from Sargodha on way to Mirpurkhas, Sultanul Abedin 4013(KUH); Campbellpur dist.: Hasan Abdal, R.R. Stewart 9537 (K, RAW);Jhalar, April 1935, E. Nasir sn. (RAW); Jhelum dist.: J.E.T. Aitchison 208(K); C-8 Kashmir: Bhimber, 1500,? C.B. Clarke 28122(K); D-6 Multan dist.: 49 miles from Multan on way to Lahore, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 3602(K); D-7 Sahiwal dist.: 60 Km W of Montgomery on the Multan Road, D. Podlech 10110(K); D-8 Lahore dist.: March 1846, T. Thomson s.n. (K); Sheikhupura dist.: Ladhar, July 1934, Sultan Ahmad s.n. (RAW); E-4 Baluchistan: Yateabad, 3400', Shaharyar Khan 23(RAW); E-5 D.G. Khan dist.: 9½ miles from Kashmore on way to Rojhan, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 9533 (KUH); Jacobabad dist.: 15 miles from Jacobabad on way to Sibi, S.A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2235(K, KUH); F-4 Karachi dist.: 10 miles from Bela on way to Karachi, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 1137 (KUH); G-2 Baluchistan: coast, November 1880, E. Pierce s.n. (K); G-4 Karachi dist.: Islamabad Housing Area, Karachi, J.J. Norris 148(K); Sonmiani, S.A. Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 1196(KUH); G-5 Hyderabad dist.: 20 miles from Hyderabad on way to Sukkur, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 2123 (K); c.13 miles from Hyderabad on way to Sukrand, S.A. Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 597, 598 (KUH); Tharparkar dist.: near Diplo, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & S. Abrar 3814 (KUH); G-6 Tharparkar dist.: Nagar Parkar Hills, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & Abrar Hussain 4072(K, KUH).

 

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Perennial with creeping woody rootstock; culms (30)90-180 cm high, woody, erect or ascending, usually branched, the lower internodes often pruinose. Leaf-blades linear, 6-30 cm long, (2.5)4-14 mm wide, flat, glabrous, sharply pointed. Panicle narrowly pyramidal to broadly oblong or ovate, 13-32 cm long, varying from copiously, branched with the branches subverticillate to sparingly branched with the spikelets condensed about the distant branches. Spikelets elliptic, 2.4-3.2 (-3.6) mm long, glabrous, acute; lower glume broadly ovate, membranous with broad hyaline margins, half to two-thirds as long as the spikelet, rarely less, 3-5-nerved, acute; upper glume with broad hyaline margins, 7-9(-11)-nerved; lower lemma 7-9-nerved, its palea almost as long; upper lemma pallid, smooth and shining.
 
 


 

 
 
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