MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH369 : Schoenoplectus articulatus (L.) Palla |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
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| Synonym : | Scirpus articulatus L. Scirpus articulatus Linnaeus Schoenoplectiella articulata (L.) Lye Schoenoplectus pseudoarticulatus. Scirpus pseudoarticulatus. |
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| Description : | Annual Herbs, tufted with spongy stem and capitate inflorescence. Plants 30-85 cm tall (including involucral bract). Rhizomes shortly creeping. Culms densely tufted, 12-30 cm tall, 5-7 mm thick, terete, transversely septate, clothed at base with 1 or 2 bladeless leaf sheaths. Leaf sheaths 10-25 cm, terete, obliquely truncate at mucronate mouth. Involucral bract 1, erect, culmlike, usually longer than culm, with many transverse septate nodes. Inflorescence a pseudolateral head with many spikelets. Spikelets sessile, ovoid, 7-9 × 4-4.5 mm, many flowered. Glumes brownish yellow with dark brown lines, deltoid-ovate, 5-5.5 mm, concave, thinly membranous, veins many and ± conspicuous, apex with a costa excurrent into a mucro. Perianth bristles absent. Stamens 3; stigmas 3. Nutlet yellowish gray at maturity, obovoid, 2-2.2 mm, 3-sided, smooth. Fl. and fr. May-Jul. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : |
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