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Melinis repens

Melinis repens

On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened plants list
Melinis repens (Melinis repens)

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Scientific name
Melinis repens
Family
Poaceae, order Poales
Group
Plant

A pink-tinged grass of rocky ground.

  • Spot it Fluffy pink-silver seed heads.
  • Home Rocky and gravel ground.
  • Food web Birds eat the seeds.
  • Why it matters Binds stony soil and feeds seed-eating birds.

Read more: Melinis repens on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanThe Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board lists it among the rare, endangered and threatened plants of Rajasthan, for Sardar Samand, Pali.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board describes it as a herb (grass) of the Poaceae family.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board's remark: rocky gravel; listed as rhynchelytrum villosum.[2]

Sources

  1. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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