MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH495 : Queenslandiella hyalina (Vahl) Ballard |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Dry grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
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| Synonym : | Cyperus hyalinus Vahl Cyperus hyalinus var. substerilis (E.G.Camus) Kük. Cyperus suaveolens Boivin ex Cherm. [Invalid] Kyllinga hyalina (Vahl) T.Koyama Mariscopsis hyalina (Vahl) F. Ballard Mariscopsis hyalinus (Vahl) Ballard Mariscopsis suaveolens Cherm. Pycreus hyalinus (Vahl) Domin Pycreus pumilus var. substerilis E.G.Camus Queenslandiella mira Domin |
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| Description : | Erect tufted non rhizomatous annuals, 5-15 cm tall; stem triquetrous, smooth. Leaves basal, many, longer than the stem, linear, gradually acuminate, 2-3 mm wide, scabrid on margins towards the apex; sheaths 1-3 cm, membranous, brown. Inflorescence simple, open, loose, 4 x 2 cm, branches spicate; bracts 5, longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets 4-6 x 2-2.5 mm, spreading, oblong-ovate, strongly compressed; rachilla flexuous, broadly winged; glumes distichous, distinctly mucronate, 2.8-3 x 2 mm, broadly ovate-acute, with 3-nerved scabrid keel, projecting beyond the glume apex, strongly 3-nerved in each half, hyaline. Stamens 2, anthers 0.4 mm long. Style 0.5-0.8 mm, stigmas 2. Nut broadly elliptic, laterally compressed, biconvex, 1.2-1.5 x 1 mm, brown, puncticulate. Flowering and fruiting: November-December | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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