MH301 : Typha angustata Bory & Chaub. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
523 |
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| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Typhales |
| Family |
: Typhaceae - Cat-tail family |
| Genus |
: Typha L. - cattail |
| Species |
: Typha angustata |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
On mudy substrate along pond margins |
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| Plant Category : |
Herbs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
Rare |
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| Plant Family : |
Typhaceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
Pun Pan-Kanis, Lesser Indian Reed Mace, Hati ghah, Googol bon |
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| Synonym : |
Typha domingensis Pers.
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| Description : |
It is a marsh land herb; tall bush like habit, 6-10 ft. high. Leaves erect, spongy, base sheathing. Flowers small, in very dense, superposed, cylindric spikes, bright greyish-brown in colour, often intermixed with dilated -tipped hairs. Perianth of capillary hairs, or in male flowers obsolete. Stamens one or more, tip of connective thickened. Ovary often reduced to a hair with clavate tip, long stalked, narrowed into a capilary style, with a filiform stigma. Fruit very minute, pericarp membranous, indehiscent or follicular. Seeds with striate testa, albumen floury |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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