Dear All Respected Members, This grass is very common in uncultivated land, outfields of playgrounds. We call this CHORKANTA in Bengali. My assumption, of it being *Chrysopogon aciculatus* (Retz.) Trin. (syn. *Andropogon aciculatus* Retz.), based upon -
1. "a pest of waste fields during the rains" - "Plant Groups" by H. Mukherji, a college text book from West Bengal 2. records from Serampore (Hooghly) - "Flora Indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants / by the late William Roxburgh. Serampore: Printed for W. Thacker, 1832. url p. 722." = http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/A/Andropogon_aciculatus/ However, description and id keys of the grass is available, but beyond my understanding - - flora of China - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=107007 - flora of Taiwan - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1050&taxon_id=200025058 - a pdf file from the above site - http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF22/Chrysopogon.pdf I will try to collect data on measurements of this grass too. Thank you, thanks to Garg Sir, Regards, Surajit Koley On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:06 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <[email protected]> > Date: 17 June 2012 22:31 > Subject: [efloraofindia:119698] grass Chrysopogon aciculatus (Andropogon > aciculatus) > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Sir / Madam, > > A common grass in playing fields is CHORKANTA in Bengali. "Plant Groups" > refers this as *Andropogon aciculatus*. > > Species : *Chrysopogon aciculatus* (Retz.) Trin. (syn. *Andropogon > aciculatus* Retz.) <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-405042> > Habit & Habitat : common grass in grassland, avg. height 1 foot > Date : 13/6/12, 12.12 p.m. > Place : Hooghly > ID help : > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!search/Andropogon$20aciculatus/indiantreepix/Sru6HXx7jyQ/U1a24xBxGDcJ > > Thank you & Regards, > > Surajit Koley > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & > 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > >
