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Ochlandra setigera
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Ochlandra setigera Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 7: 128. 1896 & in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 420. 1897; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1863(1289). 1934; Seethalakshmi & Muktesh, Bamboos India 185. 1998.
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Description:
Culms erect or scandent, to 6 m tall and 1.8 cm in diameter; nodes hardly swollen; internodes 20-30 cm long; culm sheath persistent, 15-19 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse with an abrupt, subulate tip, thin, papery, striate and wrinkled above; ligule small. Leaves 12-26 x 2-3 cm, lanceolate-acuminate, tip subulate, twisted, base rounded; surface pellucid glandular above, minutely hairy beneath and scabrid on margins; secondary nerves 6-7 pairs with as many intermediates; leaf sheaths auricled at base, mouth bristly; bristles stiff, curved; ligules short; petiole 3-6 mm. Inflorescence axillary or terminal spikate panicles. Spikelets in verticels of smaller sterile spikelets and larger fertile ones, clothed with dense white hairs, to 2.2 cm long. Basal empty glumes 7-13 mm long, ovate-mucronate, hairy, many- nerved; lemma and palea larger, to 2.3 cm long. Lodicules 5 to 1.4 cm long, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, acuminate or forked at tip, 3-6 nerved. Stamens 26-32, exserted; filaments free; anthers 1.5 cm long. Ovary narrow, oblong, surmounted by a perigynium; stigma 5, plumose, unequal. Caryopsis to 3.7 x 1.2 cm, oblong, narrowed towards the tip into a stylar beak, susbtended by persistent glumes; beak to 3 cm long; pericarp fleshy.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along banks of rivers
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Nilambur
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