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Dendrocalamus stocksii
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Dendrocalamus stocksii (Munro) M.Kumar, Remesh & Unnikr., Sida 21: 95. 2004.
Oxytenanthera stocksii Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 130. 1868; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 403. 1896.
Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii (Munro) Naithani, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 87:440.1990; Seethalakshmi & Muktesh, Bamboos India 227. 1998; Sasidh. & Anto in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 142. 1999.
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Description:
Shrubs; stems glabrous or softly pubescent, slender, grey-green, solid; nodes with a softly pubescent ring. Leaves 10-20 x 1.2-2 cm, shortly petioled, tip setaceous, base rounded or cuneate, beneath glabrous or hairy, midrib narrow; nerves 5-6; sheath striate; ligule rather long, toothed. Spikelets 1 cm long, in globose heads spinescent, glabrous, fertile and sterile; empty glumes 2, ovate, mucronate, 5-7 nerved; flower glumes 2 ovate, subacute, dorsally mucronate. Anthers short, acute. Ovary ovoid, hairy; style long, slender; stigma 1, simple, plumose. Grain elongate, beaked, smooth.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kasaragode, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Banks of rivers
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Distribution:
South India
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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:
South India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Valiyaparathode, Pachalithode near Parathode
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