Chloris barbata - Swollen windmill grass

❏ Binomial Name : Chloris barbata Sw.

❏ Synonym : Andropogon barbatus,Chloris longifolia,Chloris rufescens

❏ Family : Poaceae

❏ Common Name : Swollen windmill grass

❏ Tamil Name : Kuruthu Pillu,Chevvarakupul, Kodai Pullu

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Chloris barbata Botanical Description

Annuals. Culms tufted, erect, 10-50 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-18 x 0.3-0.5 cm, linear or linear-lanceolate, rounded at base, acuminate, flat; sheaths to 8 cm long, keeled; ligules truncate, membranous. Spikes 4-14, digitate, purplish, each 2-6 cm long. Spikelets subsessile, 2-seriate,2-3 mm long, obovate, 2-3-flowered. Lower glume 1-2 mm long, lanceolate, keeled. Upper glume c. 2 mm, lanceolate, hyaline, scabrid along the keel. Fertile lemmas 2-3 mm long, obovate, awned,densely stiff-cliate on margins and on keel; awn 4-6 mm long,scabrid. Paleas 2-2.5 x 1 mm, oblong-elliptic, hyaline; callus rounded, ciliate. Sterile lemmas 1-2 on a stalk, 0.5-1 mm long, obovate, truncate or emarginate, coriaceous, awned; awn 4-7 mm long. Stamens 3. Grains trigonous. Fl. &Fr.: March-December.

Chloris barbata Medicinal uses

❀ The leaf paste is used externally for skin disorders leaves juice used in fever, diarrhea and diabetes.

❀ The entire plant is used to treat rheumatism in traditional medicine.

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