MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH318 : Fimbristylis complanata (Retz.) Link |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 540 |
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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 : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cyperus complanatus (Retz.) Willd., nom. illeg. Fimbristylis autumnalis var. complanata (Retz.) Kük. Isolepis complanata (Retz.) Roem. & Schult. Scirpus complanatus Retz. Trichelostylis complanata (Retz.) Nees |
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| Description : | Greyish green, tufted perennial, 30-35 cm. Rhizome short, horizontal or ascending, with tillers. Stem 2-3 mm wide, strongly compressed, with 2 sharp edges, grooved, papillose between veins. Leaves c. half of stem length; shetahs up to 70 mm, yellowish green, lowest blade-less, mouth margin of scarious side deeply oblique; ligule a fringe of hairs c. 0.3 mm long; blades 3-5 mm wide, flat, soft, flexuous, grey green, abaxial side many-nerved, with papillae between nerves, adaxial side with much wider cells, not papillose, margins scabrous towards obtuse apex. Inflorescence 40-80 x 35-80 mm, a globose anthelodium of c. 100 to more than 200 spikes; lowest bract foliose, shorter than inflorescence; primary branches many, up to 50 mm, compressed, deeply grooved, all over scabrous; secondary anthelodia to 30 x 40 mm, secondary branches several, to 15 mm, compressed, scabrous; tertiary anthelodia to 15 x 15 mm, with 3-7 tertiary branches to 5 mm; ultimate branches end in spike 4-10 x 1.5-2 mm, brown, fusiform, with 10-30 glumes; glumes 2-2.8 x c. 1.5 mm, keeled, acute, brown, mid-nerve smooth or scabrous, excurrent to mucro, sides nerve-less, brown, scarious. Stamens 3, anther c. 1 mm; stigmas 3. Nut 0.5-0.7 x 0.4-0.5 mm, obovate, trigonous, reticulate and tuberculate, white, with small brownish stipe. Fl. Per.: September. | |||||||||||||
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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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