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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH338 : Fimbristylis schoenoides (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 schoenoides (Retz.) Vahl.
Plant Location in Melghat : Tarubanda  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Abildgaardia nervosa J.Presl & C.Presl.
Eleogiton monostachya (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) A.Dietr.
Fimbristylis bispicata (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) Nees & Meyen.
Fimbristylis inconstans Steud.
Fimbristylis kagiensis Hayata.
Fimbristylis kunthiana Ridl.
Fimbristylis longifolia S.T.Blake.
Fimbristylis schoenoides var. ciliata Ridl.
Iria bispicata (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) Kuntze.
Iria schoenodes (Retz.) Kuntze.
Isolepis bispicata (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) Schult.
Isolepis monostachya (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) Spreng.
Isolepis rariflora Schrad.
Scirpus bispicatus J.Koenig ex Roxb.
Scirpus monostachyos J.Koenig ex Roxb.
Scirpus schoenoides Retz.
Description : Perennials. Rhizomes very short. Culms tufted, 5-40 cm tall, slender, slightly compressed, smooth, striate, with leaves at base. Leaves shorter than culm; leaf blade 0.5-1 mm wide, glabrous, margins often involute and apical part ciliate. Involucral bracts absent or 1 or 2, linear, to 2.5 cm. Inflorescence a reduced anthela, with only 1 or 2(or 3) spikelets. Spikelets sessile or stipitate, broadly ovoid, ovoid, or oblong-ovoid, 5-12(-16) × 3-4 mm, many flowered. Glumes densely arranged, yellowish white with short brown lines, broadly ovate, membranous, abaxially with many veins but not keeled, apex rounded and not mucronate or sometimes midvein excurrent into a ca. 3 mm mucro. Stamens 3; anthers linear. Style long, compressed, basally inflated, apical half ciliate; stigmas 2. Nutlet yellowish white, globose-obovoid to subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm (including short stipe), biconvex, with hexagonal reticulation. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Oct-Nov.
 
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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 :