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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH319 : Fimbristylis ovata (Burm.f.) J.Kern

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 541  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Fimbristylis Vahl. - fimbry
Species : Fimbristylis ovata
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Abildgaardia compressa J.Presl & C.Presl.
Abildgaardia indica (Rich.) Nees.
Abildgaardia javanensis Gand.
Abildgaardia monostachya (L.) Vahl.
Abildgaardia ovata (Burm.f.) Kral.
Abildgaardia rottboelliana Nees.
Carex ovata Burm.f.
Cyperus caribaeus Pers., nom. illeg.
Cyperus indicus Rich.
Cyperus monostachyos L.
Fimbristylis compressa Fern.-Vill.
Fimbristylis monostachya (L.) Hassk.
Iria caribea Steud.
Iria indica (Rich.) Schult.
Iria monostachya (L.) Kuntze
Scirpus monostachyus (L.) Kuntze
Scirpus schoenoides Roxb., nom. illeg.
Xyris brasiliensis Spreng.
Description : Perennials. Rhizomes short. Culms tufted, 15-35 cm tall, slender. Leaves 1/2-2/3 as long as culm; leaf blade 0.5-1 mm wide, apex acute. Involucral bracts 1-3, glumelike but basalmost sometimes leaflike, 0.5-1.8 cm, apex with a 2-3 mm awn. Inflorescences reduced to a single terminal spikelet, ovoid, ellipsoid, or oblong-ovoid, 7-13 × ca. 5 mm, slightly compressed, with basal glumes distichous and apical ones spirally imbricate. Glumes yellowish green, broadly ovate to ovate, 3-6 mm, leathery, shiny, abaxially 3-veined, midvein prominent and excurrent into a mucro. Stamens 3. Style 3-sided, basally inflated; stigmas 3. Nutlet shortly stipitate, obovoid, ca. 2 mm, 3-sided, prominently verruculose. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep. 2n = 10.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : chronic inflammatory diseases
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :