MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH311 : Cyperus digitatus Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 533 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Priority One — Poorly Known Taxa | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cyperus digitatus var. laxiflorus L. K. Dai Cyperus digitatus var. pingbienensis L. K. Dai. |
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| Description : | Perennials. Rhizomes woody, very short. Culms tufted, 0.5-1.5 m tall, stout, triquetrous, smooth, basally with leaves. Leaves nearly as long as culm; sheath purplish brown, long; leaf blade 4-15 mm wide, flat or folded, subleathery. Involucral bracts 5-7, leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescence a compound or decompound anthela; rays 6-10, usually to 18 cm, each with 4-7 raylets; raylets unequal in length. Spikes at apical part of raylets, cylindric, 3-6 × 0.4-2 cm, without a peduncle, with many laxly arranged spikelets. Spikelets subdistichous, linear to narrowly ovoid, 3-12 × 1-1.5 mm, slightly compressed to compressed, spreading to obliquely spreading, 4-40-flowered; rachilla winged, wings lanceolate and laterally detaching from rachilla with nutlet maturation, with successive glumes 0.9-1.2 mm apart. Glumes straw-colored, reddish brown, or golden-yellow on both surfaces, densely imbricate, ovate to elliptic, 3-5-veined, keel greenish, apex mucronate. Stamens 3; anthers yellow, linear, ca. 0.5 mm; connective not prominent beyond anther apex. Style long; stigmas 3, shorter than style. Nutlet dark gray at maturity, oblong-ellipsoid, 1/2-3/5 as long as subtending glume, 3-sided, puncticulate. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Aug-Dec. 2n = 84, 104, 108. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | leaves are used to treat coughs, skin anti-allergic | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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