MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH321 : Fimbristylis tetragona R.Br. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 543 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Trichelostylis xyroides Arn. ex Hook.f. Scirpus tetragonus (R.Br.) Poir. Mischospora efoliata Boeckeler. Iria tetragona (R.Br.) Kuntze. Fimbristylis xyrioides Arn. ex Thwaites. Fimbristylis oxyrhachis Miq. Fimbristylis cylindrocarpa Kunth. Fimbristylis arnottii Thwaites. Fimbristylis abjiciens Steud. |
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| Description : | Annuals or short-lived perennials. Rhizomes poorly developed. Culms densely tufted, (8-)18-50(-60) cm tall, 4-angled, smooth, with few leaf sheaths at base. Leaves bladeless; sheath margin brown membranous, mouth obliquely truncate. Involucral bracts absent. Inflorescences reduced to a single terminal spikelet, ovoid to ellipsoid, 5-10 × 3-6 mm, many flowered, apex obtuse to rounded. Glumes densely spirally imbricate, pale brownish yellow, oblong, 3.5-5 mm, membranous, many veined, middle 3 veins thicker but abaxially not forming a keel, base sometimes narrower, apex not mucronate. Stamens 3; anthers linear, 1.2-1.5 mm. Style long and compressed, sparsely ciliate, basally gradually broader and nearly as wide as nutlet; stigmas 2 or 3. Nutlet pale brown, with a ca. 0.7 mm stipe, narrowly oblong, ca. 2.5 mm, biconvex, shiny and with obvious hexagonal reticulation. Fl. and fr. Sep-Oct. | |||||||||||||
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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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