Rajaji NP

Arundinella nepalensis

Arundinella nepalensis (Tut nal) Arundinella nepalensis is an evergreen, clump-forming grass with short, scaly rhizomes; it produces slender to stout, erect culms usually 90 – 200 cm tall, occasionally to 300cm. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a thatch.

Arundinella bengalensis

Arundinella bengalensis (Tut nal) This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Arundinella. The grass grown condition in forested areas. Leaves is eaten by the concerned animals.

Arthraxon lancifolius

Arthraxon lancifolius (carpetgrass) Culms procumbent; lower nodes rooting, nodes hairy. Leaves to 1.5 x 0.5 cm, ovate, acute, margins minutely serrulate, glabrous, base rounded with few long hairs. Edaphic conditions the grass grown in walls, rocks. Whole parts of plant eaten by concerned animals.

Aristida adscensionis

Aristida adscensionis (Teen Kanta) Aristida adscensionis is a species of grass. It grows easily in disturbed and waste areas and has potential to become a weed. This annual bunchgrass is quite variable in appearance, its size and shape determined largely by environmental conditions. It grows in a tuft to heights between 5 and 80 centimeters. …

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Narenga phphyrocoma

Narenga phphyrocoma (Narenga) Culm solid, about 1 cm in diameter, tall reed, up to 2 m tall. Blade about 12 mm wide; ligule tongue-shaped, about 4 mm long, ciliate. Inflorescence an oblong panicle, up to 20 cm long, margins membranous and folded.

Apluda mutica

Apluda mutica (Tachula) Mauritian Grass is a rambling perennial grass, with culms up to about 3 m long, This is considered to be a fairly good fodder grass and is readily eaten by cattle when young. It is very common in the plains and at low elevation in the Himalayas. In hedges and bushy places …

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Alloteropsis ciimicina

Alloteropsis ciimicina (Summer Grass) It is an annual grass with tufted and slender culms, about 2 ft. tall. Leaves are ovate-lanceshaped, broadly cordate at the base. Awn small stout from the top of spikelet. The grass grown conditions in Dry slopes. Leaves, grains eaten by birds and rodents are the parts that is eaten by …

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Acrachne racemosa

Acrachne racemosa (Jaura) Tufted annual grass with culms up to 75 cm high. Leaves 7–20 cm long, soft. The plant is used for purifying blood and in piles. The straw is excellent fodder for cattle and is said to improve by keeping. The grass grown in Dry slopes . Whole Parts of the grass that …

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Maniphal

Maniphal/mendal (Randia dumetorum) Maniphal  or Randia Dumetorum is a large deciduous thorny shrubs which grows up to 5 meters of height. Its Leaves are simple, ovate, wrinkled, shiny and pubescent in appearance. The Flowers are white, solitary and having honey like fragrance seen at the end of short branches. Fruits are globose, 1.8-4.5cm long, smooth …

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Bakar

Bakar/bakarcha (Premna latifolia) Bakar is a tree up to 8 m high, bark greyish-white. Leaves are simple, opposite, flat or heart-shaped, tip tapering, margin entire or sawtoothed, Flowers are bisexual, greenish-white, in corymb-ike cymes at branch-ends, up to 7 cm long. Flowers are 4 mm across, tube 2 mm, densely hairy inside, petals ovate, blunt; …

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