Coix gigantea Roxb.
MG097 : Coix gigantea J.Koenig ex Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Coix aquatica Roxb.;
Coix gigantea subsp. aquatica (Roxb.) Bhattacharya;
Coix gigantea var. aquatica (Roxb.) Watt;
Coix lacryma-jobi f. aquatica (Roxb.) Backer;
Coix lingulata Hack.;
Coix poilanei Mimeur; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae |
| Description | : | Aquatic Job's tears is a perennial, aquatic herb. Stems (culms) are creeping and rooting from nodes at base, sometimes floating, up to 30 m long, about 1 cm in diameter. Flowering stems are up to 2 m tall, more than 10-noded. Leaf sheaths are smooth, hairless or upper sheaths hispid. Leaves are narrowly to broadly linear, up to 1 m long, and 1-2.5 cm wide, hispid with tubercle-based hairs on both surfaces or almost hairless. Midvein is stout, base is rounded, margins rough, tip slenderly long-pointed. Male flower racemes are 2.5-7 cm, drooping, spikelets mostly in triads, closely imbricate. Utricle ovoid, longer than broad, bony, shiny, 10-14 × 5-7 mm, white or pale brown, sometimes with a median transverse line, apex occasionally extended into a green blade. Male spikelets are broadly elliptic, 8-12 mm; glumes many-veined, lower glume winged on keels, wing 0.7-1.2 mm wide, margin ciliolate; anthers 4-5.5 mm. Flowering: August-November. |
| 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 | : | Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D., "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra", Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, ISSN2249: 9598,(2014) Volume IV, Issue II, pp. 155 to 165
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Aquatic%20Job%27s%20Tears.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 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 | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Coix L. - Job's tears |
| Species | : Coix gigantea Roxb. |