Fimbristylis tenera
MH320 : Fimbristylis tenera Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 542 |
| Synonym | : | Trichelostylis tenella Nees.;
Scirpus tenellus Roxb.;
Iria tenera (Schult.) Kuntze.;
Fimbristylis tenera var. oxylepis.;
Fimbristylis oxylepis Steud.;
Fimbristylis muricatula Steud.;
Fimbristylis glabra Hochst. ex Steud.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual, 12-17 cm. Roots fibrous. Stem 0.3-0.5 mm diam., irregularly angular to compressed, deeply grooved, gery-green, papillose and finely scabrous. Leaves to half of stem length; sheaths up to 25 mm, grey or yellowish green, soft, mouth oblique, margin scarious; ligule 0; blades 0.4-1 mm wide, epiderm cells of adaxial side much larger than those of abaxial side, margins scabrous. Inflorescence up to 20 x 20 mm, small anthelodium of 3-5 spikes or lowest 1 or 2 primary branches up to 10 mm with a small secondary anthelodium of 2-3 spikes; lowest bract to 7 mm; spikes 4.5-10 x 1.7-2 mm, narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, with 10-20 tightly imbricate, light brown to brown glumes; glumes 2-2.5 mm, triangular, strongly cymbiform, keeled, mid-nerve green, later yellowish, excurrent to short mucro, scabrous, sides nerve-less, brown, apical part finely scabrous to papillose, margin scarious; stamens 1(-2), stigmas 3. Nut 0.8-1 x 0.6-0.7 mm, globose to obovoid, stipitate, reticulate and tuberculate, brownish white to brown. Fl. Per.: October. |
| 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://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/speciesDesc_PCL.action?species_id=3197
- https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Fimbristylis.tenera
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242101145 |
| 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 | : Fimbristylis Vahl. - fimbry |
| Species | : Fimbristylis tenera |