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Published In: Novae Plantarum Species 62. 1821. (Nov. Pl. Sp.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: India, Heyne (B).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab, adventive); tropical Africa extending to India, Burma and Indonesia.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Thelepogon elegans has been recorded only once from Pakistan, as an adventive in a cotton field near Sangla Hill. Whether or not it has become an established alien in this area has yet to be determined.
Map Location: D-7 Lyallpur dist.: Sangla Hill, Sultan Ahmad (fide Stewart, Ann. Cat. Pl. W. Pak. 114)

 

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Coarse annual; culms 10-150 cm high, erect, supported by prop roots. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 4-20 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, cordate and often amplexicaul, glabrous or hispidulous, the margins finely pectinate-ciliate. Inflorescence composed of 2-17 racemes, the lower verticillate, the upper borne on a short common axis 1-5 cm long; racemes 4-15 cm long, very fragile. Sessile spikelet 5-13 mm long; lower glume narrowly ovate, prominently rugose; upper glume rugose across the back; upper lemma with an awn 1.5-2.5 cm long. Pedicel glabrous, a little longer than the sessile spikelet.
 
 
 
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