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Schizachyrium exile
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Schizachyrium exile (Hochst.) Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa 9: 191. 1917; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1752(1214). 1934; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 483. 1984; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 188. 1991; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 558. 1994.
Andropogon exilis Hochst., Flora 27: 241. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 166. 1896.
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Description:
Annuals. Culms 10-80 cm high, densely tufted, erect or geniculate, turning red when dried; nodes glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-10 x 0.1-0.4 cm, acuminate, rounded or shallowly cordate at base. Sheaths sharply keeled. Ligules truncate, thin, membranous. Racemes 1-3 cm long, in fascicles of peduncles from the spathe, concealed or hardly exserted from it. Joints clavate or terete, 4-5 mm long, oblique and denticulate, densely villous. Sessile spikelets lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, awned, densely villous; callus shortly bearded; lower glume lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 x 0.5-1 mm, acuminate, shortly bifid at apex, coriaceous, faintly 3-5-nerved, slightly 2-keeled, villous; upper glume boat-shaped, lanceolate when spread, 4-5 x 0.5-1 mm, acuminate or shortly aristate, subcoriaceous or chartaceous, keeled, 1-3-nerved, margins hyaline; lower floret empty; upper floret bisexual; first lemma lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 x 1 mm, hyaline, 3-nerved, ciliolate; palea absent; second lemma deeply notched, awned, 3-4 x 1 mm, lobes acuminate, hyaline; awn 10-15 mm long, column 4-5 mm, chestnut brown; stamens 3 or 2 , 1-1.5 mm long; ovary oblong, c. 0.5 mm, styles 0.5-1 mm, stigmas 0.5-1 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets reduced, glume lanceolate, c. 1 mm long, aristate, arista 3-5 mm long, pedicels linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long, flat, densely villous.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Fringes of forests
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Distribution:
India and Tropical Africa
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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:
Kariavattom, Nadayara
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