| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Ascolepis tenuior Steud.;
Isolepis squarrosa (L.) Roem. & Schult., nom. illeg.;
Rikliella squarrosa (L.) J.Raynal;
Schoenoplectus squarrosus (L.) S.Yun Liang;
Scirpus neochinensis Tang & F.T.Wang;
Scirpus sinensis Kunth;
Scirpus squamosus Link, orth. var.;
Scirpus squarrosus L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | Cyperaceae |
| Description | : | Erect, tufted, non-rhizomatous, slender annual herbs with purplish fibrous roots; culms 5-15 cm tall, obtusely trigonous or subterete, whitish-green. Leaves few, basal, 1-6 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, filiform, apex acute, canaliculate, whitish-green; sheaths 1-2 cm long, light reddish-brown, lower sheaths bladeless. Inflorescence a pseudolateral head with 1-3 spikelets, reddish-brown; bracts 1-2, the lower bract leaf-like, erect, upto 4 cm long. Spikelets sessile, 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 mm, ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, squarrose, obtuse, deeply red-brown with pale green awns, many-flowered. Glumes spirally imbricated, 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm (including awn), obovate, 3-5-nerved, truncate at awned apex. Stamens 1 or 2. Stigmas 3, recurved. Nuts c. 0.5 mm long. obovate, trigonous, pale brown, minutely puncticulate. |
| 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 | : | 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 |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Cyperaceae |
| Genus | : Lipocarpha |
| Species | : Lipocarpha squarrosa (L.) Goetgh. |