Apluda mutica

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Photographs by: Dr. Maulik Gadani

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  • Botanical Name : Apluda mutica L.
  • Synonyms : Apluda varia Hack.
  • Common Name : Lapdu, Mauritian Grass
  • Plant Family : Poaceae (Gramineae)
  • Plant Form : Grasses
  • Occurrence (Sectors) : 8
  • Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Sarita Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra

About Apluda mutica Plant :

  • Habit : A perennial herb, erector geniculately ascending at base, 30 - 180 cm tall, internodes are very long..
  • Leaves : 10 - 45 x 0.25 - 1.8 cm, flat, linear, lanceolate, petiolate, sheaths long smooth, ligule oblong, lacerate.
  • Inflorescence :
    • Variable or spikelets clustered on short peduncles, the clusters solitary or few or very numerous and arranged in elongate very contracted panicles; rachis slender, glabrous, bracts sessile or pedicellate.
    • Spikes longer or shorter than the bracts with rounded base.
    • Sessile spikelets 0.3 - 0.5cm long
  • Flowers : Upper floral glume 3 - 5 nerved, below the sinus, the lateral nerves arching and meeting the midnerve at the insertion of the awn.
  • Flowering and Fruiting time : August - December
  • Significance : It is considered to be a good fodder, especially for buffaloes when young and green.internodes are very long.