MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG111 : Scirpus michelianus Linnaeus |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 548 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cyperus michelianus (Linné) Delile Juncellus michelianus (Linné) Blatt. & McCann Isolepis micheliana (Linné) Roem. & Schult. Fimbristylis micheliana (Linné) Rchb. Dichostylis micheliana (Linné) Nees Cyperus pygmaeus var. michelianus. |
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| Description : | Annuals. Roots many, fibrous. Culms densely tufted, 2-25 cm tall, compressed 3-angled, smooth, few leaved, base not swollen. Leaves shorter to slightly longer than culm; sheath purplish red, short; leaf blade 1-2.5 mm wide, flat or folded. Involucral bracts 3-6, leaflike, much longer than inflorescence, base broad. Inflorescences capitate, pyramidal-ovoid, ovoid, or subglobose, 0.5-1.5 cm in diam., with numerous spikelets. Spikelets densely aggregated at apex of short rays, ovoid to narrowly oblong-ovoid, 3-4 × ca. 1.5 mm, 10-20-flowered or more. Glumes yellowish white but sometimes middle yellowish brown to reddish brown striate, spirally imbricate, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, slightly hyaline, 3-5-veined, keel green, apex elongated into a recurved mucro. Stamens (1 or)2; anthers oblong. Style long; stigmas 2(or 3), usually yellow papillate. Nutlet narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm, 3-sided or plano-convex, margin with white hyaline cells. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep. | |||||||||||||
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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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