MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG104 : Scirpus lateriflorus J.F.Gmel. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 547 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Schoenoplectiella lateriflora (J.F.Gmel.) Lye. Isolepis oryzetorum Steud. Schoenoplectus oryzetorum (Steud.) V.I. Krecz. Schoenoplectus oryzetorum Ohwi Schoenoplectus smithii subsp. lateriflorus Soják Scirpus oryzetorum (Steud.) Ohwi Scirpus supinus var. lateriflorus (J.F. Gmel.) T. Koyama |
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| Description : | Tufted annual with few–many crowded stems; stems 4–40 cm long, or total length 8–60 cm when including the bract, 0.4–2 mm thick, triangular to almost terete. Leaf-sheaths ending in minute lobes or well developed blades 10–30 cm long. Inflorescence lax with clusters of spikelets on branches of unequal length, or contracted to a pseudo-lateral globose cluster; major involucral bract 3–12 cm long, stem-like, shorter than the stem. Spikelets 4–10 mm x 2–2.5 mm, ovoid, acute, variegated grey, green and brown. Glumes c. 3 mm long, ovate, reddish brown or pale with reddish brown lines or patches; margin shortly hairy or glabrous; midrib green, excurrent in a short mucro. Perianth absent. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1–1.3 x c. 1 mm, broadly ovoid, triangular, transversely wrinkled, blackish when mature. Basal flowers often present and producing c. 1.5 mm long and wide almost smooth nutlets. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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