Scleria parvula - nutrush
Scleria parvula - nutrush
MG112 : Scleria parvula Steud.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 549 |
| Synonym | : | Scleria coreana Palla ex Nakai.;
Scleria fenestrata Franch. & Sav.;
Scleria uliginosa Hochst. ex Boeckeler, nom. superfl.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Annuals. Roots fibrous. Rhizomes short or not well developed, thick. Culms tufted, 40-60 cm tall, slender, 3-angled, smooth, glabrous. Leaves cauline; sheaths at culm base glabrous, barely winged, bladeless or with a short blade; sheaths at middle and apical part of culm narrowly winged, villous and more densely so near contraligules; contraligule semicircular, apex obtuse; leaf blade linear, 3.5-5.5 mm wide but apically attenuate, papery, both surfaces hairy or only on 2 lateral veins of abaxial surface, margins scabrous, apex slightly obtuse to acute. Involucral bracts leaflike, basalmost to 20 cm, sheathing, opening of sheath with dense brown pubescence; bractlets setaceous, as long as or slightly longer than spikelet. Inflorescences paniculate, with 2-4 branches; branches 1.2-3 cm, distant, with few spikelets. Spikelets narrowly ovoid, 4-5 mm, mostly unisexual; female spikelets with 4 or 5 glumes and 1 female flower; male spikelets with 7-9 or more glumes. Glumes deeply straw-colored to brownish purplish, ovate to lanceolate, keeled, apex acute and apiculate. Perianth lobes acute at apex. Male flowers: stamens 2 or 3. Female flowers: ovary subspherical, glabrous. Disk yellowish white, 1/4-1/3 height of nutlet, slightly 3-lobed; lobes ovoid-triangular to subglobose, margin reflexed, apex acute. Nutlet subspherical to obovoid-spherical, 2.8-3 × 1.8-2 mm, pitted with regular longitudinally elongate lacunae, glabrous, apex with a yellowish white tip. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct. |
| 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
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242425399 |
| 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 | : Scleria P.J. Bergius - nutrush |
| Species | : Scleria parvula - nutrush |