Botanical Name: Oplismenus burmannii
Family: Poaceae
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Poales
Genus: Oplismenus
Species: O. burmannii
Synonyms:
Oplismenus unrecorded
Oplismenus humboldtianus
Panicum burmannii
Panicum not on sheet
Lagurus not on sheet
Oplismenus multisetus
Panicum hirtellum
Oplismenus burmannii
Panicum multisetum
Common Names: Burmann’s basketgrass, Cherua, Zacatillo
Habitat : Oplismenus burmannii is native to Zimbabwe.; iT GROWS throughout tropical Africa; also tropical America and Asia. It is found on elevation of 1,600 metres (5,200 ft)
Description:
Oplismenus burmannii is a flowering plant.Annual with prostrate or trailing culms 10–60 cm. long. Leaf-blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–9 cm. long, 5–20 mm. wide. Inflorescence 2–11 cm. long; racemes 0.5–2.5 cm. long, their rhachis hirsute, the spikelets contiguous. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, pubescent, often with a transverse band of hairs across the middle of the lower lemma, rarely glabrous; glumes with a scaberulous awn, that of the lower 2.5–20 mm. long, the upper shorter.
The plant’s leaves are 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long and 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) wide and are undulate as well. Its glumes are of pinkish-red colour and are much longer than the spikelet. Its inflorescence is 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) and consists of a small number of short racemes which have spikelets on them which are attached to the central axis.
Medicinal Uses: Whole plant chopped into small pieces, mixed with molasses is given to the cattle as galactogauge by the Asurs.
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Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplismenus_burmannii
https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Oplismenus.burmannii
http://www.crdeepjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Vol-3-3-1-IJBAS.pdf
