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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH374 : Schoenoplectus juncoides (Roxb.) Palla

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Schoenoplectus
Species : Schoenoplectus juncoides (Roxb.) Palla
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Schoenoplectiella juncoides (Roxb.) Lye.
Hymenochaeta juncoides (Roxb.) Nakai.
Schoenoplectiella juncoides var. rockii (Kük.) Hayas.
Schoenoplectus juncoides subsp. ohwianus (T.Koyama) Soják.
Schoenoplectus juncoides subsp. rockii (Kük.) Soják.
Schoenoplectus ohwianus (T.Koyama) Holub.
Scirpus donianus Spreng.
Scirpus junciformis Nees, nom. illeg.
Scirpus juncoides Roxb.
Scirpus juncoides var. ohwianus (T.Koyama) T.Koyama.
Scirpus luzonensis J.Presl & C.Presl.
Scirpus ohwianus T.Koyama.
Scirpus quadrangulus D.Don.
Scirpus rockii Kük.
Scirpus subquadrangularis Makino.
Scirpus supinus var. elatior Boeckeler.
Scirpus timorensis Kunth.
Description : Annual, 30-60 cm. Roots fibrous, yellow-brown. Stem to c. 50 cm, 1-1.5 mm diam., terete or 5-6 angled, smooth, green or yellowish-green. Sheaths two, lower to 20 mm, green or yellow, soon disintegrating, upper (inner) to 85 mm, green, later yellowish, mouth oblique, widely scarious, its central part corresponds ligule; blades to 2 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-3 sessile spikes; lowest bract to 70 mm, terete, apex acute. Spikes up to 18 x c. 8 mm, ovoid; glumes 2.8-4 mm, widely cymbiform, mid-nerve extending into short, smooth mucro, sides obscurely nerved, yellowish brown, apex rounded, margin narrowly scarious, with short fringe. Perianth bristles 5-6, equalling or slightly shorter than nut, pale brown; stamens 3; stigmas 2(-3). Nut 2-2.3 x 1.5-2.1 mm, widely obovoid, biconvex (or almost plano-convex), apex rounded, apiculate, surface shallowly transverse-rugulose, glossy, grey or blackish-brown. Fl. Per.: September.
 
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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 :