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Volume 61, Issue 2, December 2019

Articles

On the identity of seven interrelated species of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) in India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v61/2019/149806

Published 2019-12-15

  • C. P. Vivek
    • ,
  • G. V. S. Murthy
    • ,
  • V. J. Nair

C. P. Vivek
Botanical Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair – 744102

G. V. S. Murthy
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Coimbatore – 641002

V. J. Nair
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Coimbatore – 641002

Abstract

Mode of spikelet disarticulation in Eragrostis amabilis, E. ciliaris, E. ciliata, E. coarctata, E. deccanensis, E. riparia and E. viscosa are similar i.e., from apex downwards. Furthermore, they are interrelated in a number of morphological as well as floral characters. Hence, their circumscription and identity have considerable confusions in India. The present study provides the reliable taxonomic characters to distinguish them unambiguously

Keywords

Eragrostis, Identity, India, Poaceae, Chloridoideae.

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