Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke
Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke
MH307 : Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 529 |
| Synonym | : | Abildgaardia barbata (Rottb.) P.Beauv.;
Cyperus barbata (Rottb.) Poir.;
Fimbristylis barbata (Rottb.) Benth.;
Iria barbata (Rottb.) Kuntze.;
Isolepis barbata (Rottb.) R.Br.;
Scirpus barbatus Rottb.;
Stenophyllus barbatus (Rottb.) T.Cooke.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Rhizomes are absent. The culms are tufted densely, 0.5–0.8 mm in width, 0.6–3 cm in height, smooth and erect. The leaf sheath is thinly membranous, 0.5–2 cm in thickness, glabrous, with dispersed long hairs, mouth being white hyaline with scattered long hairs. The leaf blade is filiform, margin-entire, acuminate apex, abaxially smooth or sometimes covered with soft fine hairs and 4–10 cm × 4–8 mm. The involucral bracts are setaceous, two or three in number, very slender, abaxially smooth or covered with scattered hairs, 1–2.5 cm or ± length. Inflorescences are capitate, terminal, with 3–15 sessile spikelets and 5–12mm in thickness. The spikelets are narrowly ovoid, angular, with a subrounded or obtuse base, with 7–13 flowers, 3–6.5 × 1–1.5 mm and an acute apex. The glumes are ovate to almost broadly ovate, initially yellowish to brownish green which eventually turn pale brown, keeled, membranous, with hairs occassionaly occurring at the apex, there is a recurved short awn at the apex and the margin is ciliolate. The anther is oblong with an acute apex and one or two stamens. The style is filiform with three stigmas. The nutlet is yellowish to pale brown, globose-obovoid, three-sided, ca. 0.8 × 0.5–0.6 mm, the apex is emarginate to rounded, they have transversely rectangular cells and obscurely tuberculate. The style persistent with its base a depressed globose. Flowering and fruiting from June to November. Chromosome 2n=10. |
| 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=1&taxon_id=200026519
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/258768 |
| 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 | : Bulbostylis kunth - hairsedge |
| Species | : Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke |