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Aristida hystrix
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Aristida hystrix L. f., Suppl. Pl. 113. 1781; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 225. 1896; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1809(1252). 1934; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 326. 1991; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 509. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 383. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 946. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Pottapullu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Annuals or perennials; culms to 60 cm high, tufted, geniculate, nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-10 x 0.1-0.2 cm, narrow, glabrous; sheath rounded, glabrous; ligule a row of hairs. Panicle 10-15 x 7 cm, lax; branches filiform, glabrous. Spikelets similar, 7-8 mm long, lanceolate, solitary, pedicelled; lower glume 4 x 0.5 mm, 1-nerved, glabrous; upper glume 7 x 0.5 mm, acuminate, 1-nerved, keeled; floret one; lemma 7-8 x 1 mm, lanceolate, 3-nerved, awned; awns 10-15 mm long; palea minute, hyaline; stamens 3; ovary elliptic; styles 2, free; stigma plumose.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-December
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Moist deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Thekkady, Keerapady, Melarcode, Ponmudi
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