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Ochlandra ebracteata
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Ochlandra ebracteata Raizada & Chatterjee, Indian For. 89: 362. 1963; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 564. 1994; Seethalakshmi & Muktesh, Bamboos India 180. 1998.
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Description:
An erect, shrubby or arborescent; culms to 4-6 m tall, 2-3.8 cm in diameter; nodes shining green; internodes ca. 45 cm long; culm-sheath ovate-obtuse, 13-15 x 6 -11 cm, covered with appressed, subulate, chocolate brown or black, hairs. Leaves 12-15 x 1.5-2 cm, lanceolate-acuminate, shortly cuneate at base, glabrous on both sides, margins and apices scabrid; ligule 5 - 9 mm long; petiole 2-10 mm, thick and broad, often twisted. Inflorescence a flagellate spike of verticillate clusters of sessile spikelets with a few comparatively large fertile spikelets mixed with smaller sterile ones. Fertile spikelets 3-3.5 cm long, 5-7 mm broad, cylindroconical, smooth, shining and glabrous; sterile glumes 4, 0.6-1.3 cm in flowers, 1.3-18 cm in fruits; fertile glumes 1.75 cm long in flowers, 2.5-3 cm in fruits; palea 1.4 cm long in flowers, to 3 cm in fruits. Lodicules 4. Stamens numerous, filaments fused; anthers 10-15 mm long. Ovary very small, dorsally compressed, somewhat spherical, stigma 7-9, plumose. Caryopsis 6 x 1.5 cm, oblong with a long awn-like beak, light chocolate brown in colour.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Kollam, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Stream sides
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kottur R.F.
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