MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH314 : Cyperus squarrosus |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 536 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | bearded flatsedge, awned flatsedge | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chlorocyperus inflexus (Muhlenberg) Palla Cyperus aristatus Rottbøll Cyperus aristatus var. inflexus (Muhlenberg) Kükenthal Cyperus aristatus var. runyonii O’Neill Cyperus inflexus Muhlenberg Dichostylis aristata (Rottbøll) Palla Mariscus squarrosus (Linnaeus) C. B. Clarke |
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| Description : | Herbs, annual, cespitose, with fibrous roots. Culms 1–20, trigonous, 2–16 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. Leaves 1–3, flat to V-shaped, (1–)5–10(–15) × 0.5–2.5 mm. Inflorescences: spike 1, loosely to densely ovoid to oblong, 6–20(–40) × 9–15(–20) mm; rays absent or 1–3(–6), 4–40 mm; bracts (1–)2–4, longest ± erect, V-shaped, 1–15 cm × 0.5–3 mm; rachilla ± deciduous, wingless. Spikelets (2–)6–20(–40), greenish to reddish brown, somewhat compressed, ovoid-lanceoloid to oblong, 2.5–10(–20) × 1.3–2.2 mm (excluding awns); floral scales deciduous, (4–)10–20(–34), greenish to stramineous or brownish red laterally, greenish medially, (5–)7–9(–11)-ribbed nearly to margins, oblong-lanceolate, (1.2–)1.3–1.8(–2.2) × (0.5–)0.7–0.8(–1) mm, apex cuspidate, excurved awn additional 0.5–1(–1.3) mm. Flowers: stamen 1, filaments 1.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.2–0.3 mm, connective apex reddish, minute; styles 0.3–0.5 mm; stigmas 0.4–0.7 mm. Achenes light brown to nearly black, stipitate, obovoid (occasionally linear-spatulate or linear oblong, infrequently constricted in middle), 0.7–0.8(–1.1) × (0.2–)0.3–0.4(–0.5) mm, stipe 0.05–0.1 × 0.1 mm, apex truncate, apiculate, surfaces papillose. | |||||||||||||
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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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