Grass Species of Rajaji National Park
Polypogon monspeliensis (Rabbitsfoot Grass) Polypogon monspeliensis, commonly known as annual beard-grass or annual rabbitsfoot grass, is a species of grass. It is an annual grass growing to heights between 5 centimeters and one meter. The soft, fluffy inflorescence is a dense, greenish, plumelike panicle, sometimes divided into lobes. The spikelets have long, thin, whitish awns,
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Pogonatherum paniceum (Ringaliya) It is a type of grass. It has small and fine bright green leaves and grows in a tight clump with a bushy habit. It can be grown in full sun to part shade, though it must be kept constantly moist. A slender, tufted grass, the culms are often reddish, erect and
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Phragmites karka (Narkul) Narkul grown in swampy river sides.Tall Reed is a perennial reed, with creeping rhizomes. Culms are erect, up to 10 m tall. Leaf-blades are 30-80 cm long and 1.2-4 cm wide, hairless, rough to touch beneath, the tips flat and stiff. Rhachilla, long, silky hairy above the lowest lemma. Flowering: April-November
Perotis hordeiformis The grass grown in Sandy areas. Inflorescence composed of racemes. Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Glumes similar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma.
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Paspalum scrobiculatum (Kodo) Kodo millet is a monocot and an annual grass that grows to heights of approximately four feet. It has an inflorescence that produces 4-6 racemes that are 4–9 cm long. Its slender, light green leaves grow to be 20 to 40 centimeters in length. The seeds it produces are very small and
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Paspalidium flavidum (Yellow Watercrown Grass) Yellow Watercrown Grass is a perennial grass, characterized by by spikes separated by 2-4 times their length, and spikelets spherical. Stems (culms) are tufted, slightly compressed, 1-3 ft tall from a prostrate base. Flowering: July-October.
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Oplismenus composites Annuals grass. Culms 25-80 cm long, trailing, creeping and rooting at the lower nodes; nodes softly hairy. Leaves 1.5-7 x 0.8 – 2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base oblique. Lower glume 2-3 x 1 mm. Upper glume 2-3 x 1 mm, ovate-elliptic, Lower floret barren. Upper floret bisexual.
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Oplismenus burmanii Oplismenus burmannii is a flowering plant that can be found in Florida and on Hawaii, but is native to Zimbabwe. The plant’s leaves are 5 centimetres long and 1.5 centimetres wide and are undulate as well. Its glumes are of pinkish-red colour and are much longer than the spikelet.
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Neyraudia arundinacea (Khail) Perennial with short scaly rhizomes. Culms 2–4 m. high and up to 1 cm. in diameter, almost woody. Leaf-blades up to 60 cm. long and 10 mm. broad, mostly rolled, scabrid, the tip filiform. Panicle lanceolate, 30–80 cm. long and 8–12 cm. broad, dense, light brown.
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Imperata cylindrica (Panni) Imperata cylindrica (commonly known as cogongrass or kunai It has also been introduced to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States. It is a highly flammable fire-adapted species, and can spread rapidly by colonizing disturbed areas and encouraging more frequent wildfires.
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