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Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf

Distribution in Egypt

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Eastern desert, Res Sea coastal strip and Gebel Elba.

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Global Distribution

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Tropical and southern Africa, tropical Asia.

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Habitat

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Moist sandy soils.

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Life Expectancy

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Annual.

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Description

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Annual. Culms tufted, loosely ascending, 30–60 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous to pubescent; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, 4–12 × 0.4–0.8 cm, velvety-pubescent, margins thickened and slightly wavy, scaberulous, apex acuminate; ligule short, ciliate. Inflorescence axis 6–13 cm; racemes 3–6, 2–5 cm, loosely erect to ascending; rachis triquetrous, hispid; spikelets mostly borne in loosely contiguous pairs, one spikelet subsessile, the other shortly pedicelled, single toward raceme apex, lightly appressed to axis. Spikelets elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm, with a 0.1–0.5 mm basal stipe, glabrous, pubescent or hispidulous, acute to cuspidate; lower glume broadly ovate, 1/3–1/2 spikelet length, 5-veined; upper glume 5–7-veined; upper lemma distinctly rugose, apex acute. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. 2n = 32, 36.
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Description

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Loosely tufted annual; culms 10-70 cm high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 2-25 cm long, 4-14 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3 racemes borne on an axis 3-10 cm long; racemes 1-8 cm long, simple or the longest with branchlets at the base, bearing mostly paired loosely contiguous spikelets appressed to the triquetrous rhachis; pedicels shorter than the spikelets, 1-2 mm long. Spikelets elliptic to broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous or pubescent, acute to cuspidate, with or without a stipe up to 0.5 mm long; lower glume a third to half the length of the spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma membranous, or rarely the latter coriaceous; upper lemma rugose, subacute to acute.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 207 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Old World Tropics.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir): Senegal to Yemen and southwards to Malawi, Rhodesia and South Africa; tropical Asia.
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Elevation Range

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200-1800 m
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-October.
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Habitat & Distribution

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Grasslands, hill slopes, weedy places. Hainan, Yunnan [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa].
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Synonym

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Panicum ramosum Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 1: 29. 1767; P. brachylachnum Steudel; P. canescens Roth ex Roemer & Schultes; Urochloa ramosa (Linnaeus) T. Q. Nguyen.
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Derivation of specific name

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ramosa: branched
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=106900
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Physical Description

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Annuals, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stem nodes bearded or hairy, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades 1-2 cm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Ligule present, Ligule a fringed, ciliate, or lobed membrane, Ligule a fringe of hairs, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets dorsally compressed or terete, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets with 2 florets, Spikelet with 1 fertile floret and 1-2 sterile florets, Spikelets paired at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating below the glumes, Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes equal to or longer than adjacent lemm a, Glume surface hairy, villous or pilose, Glumes 3 nerved, Glumes 4-7 nerved, Lemma coriaceous, firmer or thicker in texture than the glumes, Lemma 5-7 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma mucronate, very shortly beaked or awned, less than 1-2 mm, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea longer than lemma, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis.
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Brachiaria ramosa

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Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf (browntop millet) is an annual millet grass belonging to the grass family (Poaceae). It is native to South Asia, where it is traditionally cultivated as a cereal crop.[1][2]

The reconstructed Proto-Dravidian name for Brachiaria ramosa is *conna-l.[3]

Other scientific names for browntop millet include Urochloa ramosa (L.) Nguyen and Panicum ramosum (L.).

Pests

Insect pests include:[4]

References

  1. ^ FULLER, D.Q. 2006. Agricultural origins and frontiers in South Asia: a working synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory 20: 1-86.
  2. ^ Fuller, Dorian Q. (2014). "Millets: Origins and Development". Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York, NY: Springer New York. pp. 4945–4948. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2181.
  3. ^ Southworth, Franklin C. 2005. Proto-Dravidian Agriculture. Paper presented at the 7th ESCA Round Table Conference, Kyoto, June 2005.
  4. ^ Kalaisekar, A (2017). Insect pests of millets: systematics, bionomics, and management. London: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-804243-4. OCLC 967265246.
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Brachiaria ramosa: Brief Summary

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Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf (browntop millet) is an annual millet grass belonging to the grass family (Poaceae). It is native to South Asia, where it is traditionally cultivated as a cereal crop.

The reconstructed Proto-Dravidian name for Brachiaria ramosa is *conna-l.

Other scientific names for browntop millet include Urochloa ramosa (L.) Nguyen and Panicum ramosum (L.).

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