Cyperus digitatus
MH311 : Cyperus digitatus Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 533 |
| Synonym | : | Cyperus digitatus var. laxiflorus L. K. Dai;
Cyperus digitatus var. pingbienensis L. K. Dai.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Perennials. Rhizomes woody, very short. Culms tufted, 0.5-1.5 m tall, stout, triquetrous, smooth, basally with leaves. Leaves nearly as long as culm; sheath purplish brown, long; leaf blade 4-15 mm wide, flat or folded, subleathery. Involucral bracts 5-7, leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescence a compound or decompound anthela; rays 6-10, usually to 18 cm, each with 4-7 raylets; raylets unequal in length. Spikes at apical part of raylets, cylindric, 3-6 × 0.4-2 cm, without a peduncle, with many laxly arranged spikelets. Spikelets subdistichous, linear to narrowly ovoid, 3-12 × 1-1.5 mm, slightly compressed to compressed, spreading to obliquely spreading, 4-40-flowered; rachilla winged, wings lanceolate and laterally detaching from rachilla with nutlet maturation, with successive glumes 0.9-1.2 mm apart. Glumes straw-colored, reddish brown, or golden-yellow on both surfaces, densely imbricate, ovate to elliptic, 3-5-veined, keel greenish, apex mucronate. Stamens 3; anthers yellow, linear, ca. 0.5 mm; connective not prominent beyond anther apex. Style long; stigmas 3, shorter than style. Nutlet dark gray at maturity, oblong-ellipsoid, 1/2-3/5 as long as subtending glume, 3-sided, puncticulate. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Aug-Dec. 2n = 84, 104, 108. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | leaves are used to treat coughs, skin anti-allergic |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Red List Category - Priority One — Poorly Known Taxa |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/226968
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200026677
- http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora_malesiana/node/11179
- https://uses.plantnet_project.org/en/Cyperus_digitatus_(PROSEA) |
| 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 | : Cyperus L. - flatsedge |
| Species | : Cyperus digitatus |