Scirpus lateriflorus
MG104 : Scirpus lateriflorus J.F.Gmel.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 547 |
| Synonym | : | Schoenoplectiella lateriflora (J.F.Gmel.) Lye.;
Isolepis oryzetorum Steud.;
Schoenoplectus oryzetorum (Steud.) V.I. Krecz.;
Schoenoplectus oryzetorum Ohwi;
Schoenoplectus smithii subsp. lateriflorus Soják;
Scirpus oryzetorum (Steud.) Ohwi;
Scirpus supinus var. lateriflorus (J.F. Gmel.) T. Koyama; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual with few–many crowded stems; stems 4–40 cm long, or total length 8–60 cm when including the bract, 0.4–2 mm thick, triangular to almost terete. Leaf-sheaths ending in minute lobes or well developed blades 10–30 cm long. Inflorescence lax with clusters of spikelets on branches of unequal length, or contracted to a pseudo-lateral globose cluster; major involucral bract 3–12 cm long, stem-like, shorter than the stem. Spikelets 4–10 mm x 2–2.5 mm, ovoid, acute, variegated grey, green and brown. Glumes c. 3 mm long, ovate, reddish brown or pale with reddish brown lines or patches; margin shortly hairy or glabrous; midrib green, excurrent in a short mucro. Perianth absent. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1–1.3 x c. 1 mm, broadly ovoid, triangular, transversely wrinkled, blackish when mature. Basal flowers often present and producing c. 1.5 mm long and wide almost smooth nutlets. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Schoenoplectus.lateriflorus |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Cyperaceae - Sedge family |
| Genus | : Scirpus |
| Species | : Scirpus lateriflorus |