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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH334 : Fimbristylis aestivalis (Retz.) Vahl

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Fimbristylis Vahl. - fimbry
Species : Fimbristylis aestivalis (Retz.) Vahl.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : summer fimbry,
 
Synonym : Cyperus amane Siebold
Fimbristylis aestivalis var. aestivalis
Fimbristylis aestivalis f. latifolia T.Koyama
Fimbristylis aestivalis subsp. major Trimen ex T.Koyama
Fimbristylis leiocarpa Maxim.
Fimbristylis tokyoensis Makino
Fimbristylis tricholepis Miq.
Fimbristylis trimenii Hook.f.
Iria aestivalis (Vahl) Kuntze
Isolepis schomburghii Steud.
Scirpus aestivalis (Vahl) Retz.
Scirpus leiocarpus (Maxim.) Meinsh.
Description : Herbs, with fibrous roots. Leaves decompound. Annuals. Rhizomes absent. Culms densely tufted, 3-25 cm tall, slender, flatly 3-angled, smooth, with few leaves at base. Leaves shorter than culm; leaf blade filiform, 0.5-1 mm wide, flat, both surfaces sparsely pubescent, margin slightly involute; sheath brown, short, white pilose. Involucral bracts 3-5, filiform, shorter to longer than inflorescence, sparsely hairy. Inflorescence a compound anthela, lax; rays 3-7, to 3 cm, slender. Spikelets solitary, ovoid, oblong-ovoid, or narrowly ovoid, 2.5-6 × 1-1.5 mm, many flowered. Glumes spirally imbricate, reddish brown, ovate to oblong, ca. 1 mm, membranous, 3-veined forming an abaxial green keel, apex mucronate. Stamen 1; anther narrowly ovoid. Style long and compressed, basally inflated, apically ciliate; stigmas 2, short. Nutlet yellow, subsessile, obovoid, ca. 0.6 mm, biconvex, almost smooth or sometimes with very indistinct hexagonal reticulation. Fl. May-Aug.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :