MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH307 : Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 529 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Abildgaardia barbata (Rottb.) P.Beauv. Cyperus barbata (Rottb.) Poir. Fimbristylis barbata (Rottb.) Benth. Iria barbata (Rottb.) Kuntze. Isolepis barbata (Rottb.) R.Br. Scirpus barbatus Rottb. Stenophyllus barbatus (Rottb.) T.Cooke. |
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| Description : | Rhizomes are absent. The culms are tufted densely, 0.5–0.8 mm in width, 0.6–3 cm in height, smooth and erect. The leaf sheath is thinly membranous, 0.5–2 cm in thickness, glabrous, with dispersed long hairs, mouth being white hyaline with scattered long hairs. The leaf blade is filiform, margin-entire, acuminate apex, abaxially smooth or sometimes covered with soft fine hairs and 4–10 cm × 4–8 mm. The involucral bracts are setaceous, two or three in number, very slender, abaxially smooth or covered with scattered hairs, 1–2.5 cm or ± length. Inflorescences are capitate, terminal, with 3–15 sessile spikelets and 5–12mm in thickness. The spikelets are narrowly ovoid, angular, with a subrounded or obtuse base, with 7–13 flowers, 3–6.5 × 1–1.5 mm and an acute apex. The glumes are ovate to almost broadly ovate, initially yellowish to brownish green which eventually turn pale brown, keeled, membranous, with hairs occassionaly occurring at the apex, there is a recurved short awn at the apex and the margin is ciliolate. The anther is oblong with an acute apex and one or two stamens. The style is filiform with three stigmas. The nutlet is yellowish to pale brown, globose-obovoid, three-sided, ca. 0.8 × 0.5–0.6 mm, the apex is emarginate to rounded, they have transversely rectangular cells and obscurely tuberculate. The style persistent with its base a depressed globose. Flowering and fruiting from June to November. Chromosome 2n=10. | |||||||||||||
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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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