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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH469 : Cyperus nutans Vahl

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Cyperus L. - flatsedge
Species : Cyperus nutans Vahl
Plant Location in Melghat : near river bank, pools, streams  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Cyperus jacquini Schrad.
Chlorocyperus jacquini (Schrad.)
Description : Perennial, 40-80 cm. Rhizome short, with tillers. Stem 2-6 cm diam., trigonous, smooth. Leaves shorter than stem; sheaths up to c. 15 cm, pale green or yellowish brown, soft, mouth margin straight or slightly ligulate; blades to 30 cm or more, 4-9 mm wide, grey-green, scabrous. Inflorescence an anthelodium, 8-30 cm; lowermost bracts foliose, to more than 30 cm; primary branches 5-9, to more than 20 cm, secondary anthelodia 15-75 mm; tertiary anthelodia occasional, up to 35 mm; cluster of spikes sessile or pedunculate, 15-30 mm, with 8-24 spirally arranged spikes. Spike 5-15 x c. 3 mm, with c. 10 glumes; glume-like bract c. 1.5 mm, acute, glume-like prophyll bi-nerved, c. 1 mm; rachis flat, reddish brown, internodes c. 1 mm, winged; glumes 2.2-2.5 mm, cymbiform, acute with green mid-nerve ending into mucro up to 0.3 mm, sides with 3-4 prominent, reddish-brown nerves. Nut 1.3-1.5 x c. 0.7 mm, ovoid, trigonous, brown, densely and finely papillose.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :