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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH494 : Pycreus pumilus (L.) Nees

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida
Order : Poales
Family : Cyperaceae
Genus : Pycreus
Species : Pycreus pumilus (L.) Nees
Plant Location in Melghat : Marshy areas, paddy fields and wetlands  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List Category - Least concern  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Cyperus breviculmis F.Muell., nom. illeg.
Cyperus commutatus Steud.
Cyperus divergens Chapm., nom. illeg.
Cyperus gymnoleptus Steud.
Cyperus laxiusculus Steud.
Cyperus leucolepis J.Carey ex C.B.Clarke, nom. illeg.
Cyperus nervulosus (Kük.) S.T.Blake
Cyperus nitens Retz.
Cyperus nitens var. patens (Vahl) Boeckeler
Cyperus obstinatus Steud.
Cyperus patens Vahl
Cyperus pulvinatus Nees & Meyen
Cyperus pumilus L.
Cyperus pumilus f. gracilis (E.G.Camus) Kük.
Cyperus pumilus var. leucolepis (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
Cyperus pumilus var. nervulosus Kük.
Cyperus pumilus var. patens (Vahl) Kük.
Cyperus pumilus var. prorepens Kük.
Cyperus pumilus var. punctatus C.B.Clarke
Cyperus punctatus Roxb., nom. illeg.
Cyperus pusillus Vahl
Cyperus pygmaeus Retz., nom. illeg.
Cyperus strictus Wight ex C.B.Clarke, nom. inval.
Cyperus terminalis Marsh ex Steud.
Cyperus truncatulus Steud.
Dichostylis nitens (Retz.) Palla
Dichostylis patens (Vahl) Palla
Juncellus leucolepis C.B.Clarke
Juncellus pumilus Peter
Pycreus nitens (Retz.) Nees
Pycreus nitens f. gracilis E.G.Camus
Pycreus patens (Vahl) Cherm.
Pycreus pulvinatus (Nees & Meyen) Nees
Pycreus pumilus var. patens (Vahl) Hoenselaar
Pycreus pumilus var. punctatus Domin
Pycreus punctatus Govind.
Description : Erect, tufted, non-rhizomatous annual herbs; culms 7-18 cm tall, triquetrous. Leaves few, basal, 5-12 x 0.1-0.2 cm, linear, flat, gradually narrowed to long, acuminate apex, sheaths 1.5-3 cm long, purplish-brown. Inflorescence simple to subcompound, 2-5 cm long and as wide; primary rays 1-5, upto 3 cm long; bracts 3-5, the longest 7-12 cm long. Spikelets 5-12 x 2-2.5 mm, oblong, subacute, flattened, light greenish. Glumes distichous, closely imbricate, 1-1.5 x 1 mm, ovate-obtuse, the midnerve excurrent into a distinct mucro, sharply keeled, 1-2 basal ones empty. Stamens 2. Stigmas 2; longer than the style. Nut upto 1 x 0.5 mm, ellipsoid, biconvex, distinctly apiculate, brown, distinctly puncticulate.
 
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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 :