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Family Gramineae / Poaceae
Ginketkaran
Manisuris granularis Linn.
PITSCALE GRASS

Scientific names Common names
Manisuris granularis Linn. Ginketkaran (Bag.)
Mnesithea granularis Linn. Pitscale grass (Engl.)
Cenchrus granularis Linn.  
Hackelochloa granularis O. Kuntze  
Rytilix granularis Skeels  

Botany
Gingetkaran is a grass with stems 20 to 60 cm high, erect, at length much-branched and softyly hairy. Leaves are 5 to 15 cm long, 0.5 to 1.2 cm wide, flat hairy on both surfaces, the margins ciliate. Spikes are 1 to 2 cxm long and slender, resembling a string of minute beads. Sessile spikelets are 1 to 2 mm long, about 1 mm in diameter; the pedicellate ones are equal in length to the sessile or longer of the two equal green glumes.

Distribution
In disturbed soil, open waste places, old clearings, etc, at low and medium altitudes.
Pantropic.


Uses

Folkloric
In Behar, prescribed internally, for conjunctivitis.
With a little sweet oil, in caes of enlarged spleen and liver.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Last Update July 2010

IMAGE SOURCE: Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / pitscale grass / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. / USDA

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