MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH336 : Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Dhulghat | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | grasslike fimbry, hoorahgrass, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Scirpus miliaceus Linnaeus Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudichaud Isolepis miliacea (Linnaeus) J. Presl Scirpus bengalensis Persoon Trichelostylis miliacea (Linnaeus) Nees |
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| Description : | Annual Herbs, leafy with slender roots fibres. Plants annual, cespitose, 15–50(–70) cm, glabrous, base soft; rhizomes absent. Leaves distichous, in fans, to ca. 2/3 plant height; sheaths keeled, equitant, margins entire; ligule absent; blades bifacial (flattened in same plane as sheath), narrowly triangular linear, to 2 mm wide, margins scabrid at least distally. Inflorescences: anthela compound, usually diffuse, branched, broadening upward, often as broad as long; scapes slender, angularly ribbed and/or somewhat compressed distally, 1–1.5 mm wide or thick; involucral bracts exceeded by anthela. Spikelets dark red-brown, broadly ovoid to near round, 2–4 min; fertile scales broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1 mm, glabrous, apex broadly rounded, midrib not excurrent. Flowers: stamens 1–2; styles 3-fid, slender, base dilated, apex pubescent. Achenes pale brown, tumid, obovoid, 1 mm, apiculate, reticulate, with pits narrowly rectangular in 4–6 vertical rows per side, the longitudinal ribs most prominent and mostly warty. 2n = 10. | |||||||||||||
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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 : |
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