113 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Liliopsida - Monocotyledons

► Subclass Commelinidae

► Order Cyperales

► Family Poaceae [= Gramineae] - Grass family

► Subfamily Chloridoideae

► Tribe Cynodonteae

► Genus Chloris Sw. - Windmill grass

Synonyms

(=) Andropogon barbatus sensu L. 1771

Andropogon polydactylos L.

Chloris barbata (L.) Nash

Chloris dandyana C. D. Adams

Chloris elata Desv.

(=) Chloris inflata Link

(=) Chloris paraguaiensis Steud.

Chloris polydactyla Sw.

Common names

Finger-grass (English)

Swollen fingergrass (English)

Swollen windmill grass (English)

Épillets menus (French)

 

Cevvarakupul (India (Tamil))

Description

Thin fingerlike spikelets bearing minute inconspicuous flowers and reddish-brown hairs aggregated at the tip of a thin erect stem. An annual grass.