MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH320 : Fimbristylis tenera Schult. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 542 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Trichelostylis tenella Nees. Scirpus tenellus Roxb. Iria tenera (Schult.) Kuntze. Fimbristylis tenera var. oxylepis. Fimbristylis oxylepis Steud. Fimbristylis muricatula Steud. Fimbristylis glabra Hochst. ex Steud. |
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| Description : | Tufted annual, 12-17 cm. Roots fibrous. Stem 0.3-0.5 mm diam., irregularly angular to compressed, deeply grooved, gery-green, papillose and finely scabrous. Leaves to half of stem length; sheaths up to 25 mm, grey or yellowish green, soft, mouth oblique, margin scarious; ligule 0; blades 0.4-1 mm wide, epiderm cells of adaxial side much larger than those of abaxial side, margins scabrous. Inflorescence up to 20 x 20 mm, small anthelodium of 3-5 spikes or lowest 1 or 2 primary branches up to 10 mm with a small secondary anthelodium of 2-3 spikes; lowest bract to 7 mm; spikes 4.5-10 x 1.7-2 mm, narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, with 10-20 tightly imbricate, light brown to brown glumes; glumes 2-2.5 mm, triangular, strongly cymbiform, keeled, mid-nerve green, later yellowish, excurrent to short mucro, scabrous, sides nerve-less, brown, apical part finely scabrous to papillose, margin scarious; stamens 1(-2), stigmas 3. Nut 0.8-1 x 0.6-0.7 mm, globose to obovoid, stipitate, reticulate and tuberculate, brownish white to brown. Fl. Per.: October. | |||||||||||||
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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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