Common name - Rila thana
Botanical name - Ischaemum timorense
Family - Colchicaceae
Life cycle - perennial or annual
Morphology
- A spreading stoloniferous perennial or annual, creeping and rooting in lower part, erect, slanting or scrambling in upper part with culms up to 1 m high
- Leaf; sheath 3 - 6 cm long, white-hairy on the nodes and often with long hairs at the mouth, leaf-blade; lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, , base obtuse or petiole-like, apex acute,
- Inflorescence; terminal, composed of closely opposed
- Flower; green or tinged with purple, lower floret male, upper floret bisexual;, at the base swollen and stipe-like and white-hairy
- Caryopsis ellipsoid, 1 - 2 mm long
Propagation
- By seeds
Agricultural usage/ importance
- Fodder
Control method
- Hand weeding
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