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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG101 : Rickliella squarrosa (L.)

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 546  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Rickliella
Species : Rickliella squarrosa
Plant Location in Melghat : warm-temperate regions  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Scirpus squarrosus (Vahl) Poir., nom. illeg
Description : annual, puberulous or nearly glabrous; stem 2–8 in. long; leaves 1/2– 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/16 in. broad; umbel usually compound; bracts 3–4, often as long as the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets all pedicelled, 1/5 by 1/12 in., dense; glumes elliptic, keeled, dusky, the 3 nerves coalescing into a curved excurrent mucro; stamens usually 2; style small, hairy; branches 2; nut 1/3 as long as the glume, obovoid, biconvex, pale straw-colour, smooth; hairs 10–18, simple, white, 1/2– 2/3 the length of the nut, hanging from the style-base closely round the nut, falling off with the deciduous style. null
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ T. Pullaiah, Chintala Prabhakar, B. Ravi Prasad Rao; "Flora of Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India"; Daya Books (1998); PMID :