Diversity of grass flora of Shivpuri district with special references to their utility

Rajesh Kumar Ninama 1 and Jeetendra Sainkhediya 2, *

1 Department of Forest, Working plan Shivpuri, M. P. India.
2 Department of Botany, Govt. P. G. College Sendhwa dist. Barwani, M. P., India.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2022, 07(01), 315–322.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2022.7.1.0215
Publication history: 
Received on 13 September 2022; revised on 17 October 2022; accepted on 19 October 2022
 
Abstract: 
Grass range research turned into finished in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh to gather the information about grass sources used by tribal network of Shivpuri of their environment. The range of grass flora with unique reference to their utility turned into performed from Nov. 2021 to Sept. 2022. Grass is located on anywhere and its miles belong to Poaceae family. It plays essential role in human in addition to animas existence as meals, remedy, fiber and plenty of different things got here from them. This newsletter offers with 65 grasses belonging to seven subfamilies and 11 tribe. Gift examine well-known shows that Oil is gain by means of one species specifically Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash and 4 species have used for decorative reason three are food and 16 species are used for Medicinal cause and 49 species is used for fodder cause. Panicoideae sub households showcase maximum illustration with 32species fallowed by using Chloridoideae (25), Arundinoideae, Bambusoideae & Pooideae (2), and Ehrhartoideae & Micrairoideae (1) species. These sixty five plant life encompass 35 annual species and 30 species are perennial species. Some species particularly Avena sterlis L.; Bambusa arundinaceae Wil.; Dendrocalamus strictus (Roxb.) Nees.; Polytrias indica (Hout.) Veld.; Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin. ; Phragmites karka (Retz.) trin ex. Steud.; Tripogon lisboae Stapf. are not often observed in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, India
 
Keywords: 
Shivpuri; Grass diversity; Ethno-botany; Poaceae; Vindhyan plateau; Malwa plateau
 
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