Coix aquatica Roxb.
Coix aquatica Roxb.
Coix aquatica Roxb.
MG144 : Coix aquatica Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Coix gigantea J.Koenig ex Roxb., nom. illeg.;
Coix gigantea subsp. aquatica (Roxb.) Bhattacharya;
Coix lacryma-jobi f. aquatica (Roxb.) Backer;
Coix lingulata Hack.;
Coix poilanei Mimeur; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Aquatic Job's Tears |
| Plant Family | : | POACEAE |
| Description | : | Perennial, aquatic. Culms creeping and rooting from nodes at base, sometimes floating, up to 30 m long, ca. 1 cm in diam., flowering stems up to 2 m tall, more than 10-noded. Leaf sheaths smooth, glabrous or upper sheaths tuberculate-hispid; leaf blades narrowly to broadly linear, up to 100 × (0.3–)1–2.5 cm, hispid with tubercle-based hairs on both surfaces or almost glabrous, midvein stout, base rounded, margins scabrous, apex slenderly acuminate; ligule ca. 1 mm, margin ciliate. Male raceme 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 broadly elliptic, 8–12 mm; glumes many-veined, lower glume winged on keels, wing (0.4–)0.7–1.2(–1.5) mm wide, margin ciliolate; anthers 4–5.5 mm. 2n = 10, 20,40. Flowering and fruiting: October-February |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Grasslands |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinids |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae |
| Genus | : Coix |
| Species | : Coix aquatica Roxb. |