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Alloteropsis semialata var. viatica
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Alloteropsis semialata (R.Br.) Hitch. var. viatica (Griff.) Ellis & Karthik., Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 70: 594. 1973; Sreek. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Kerala Grasses 215. 1991.
Aira viatica Griff., Not. 3: 54. 1851.
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Description:
Perennial herbs, culms 50-120 cm high, tufted, erect, base woolly with remnant leaf sheaths; nodes densely bearded. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5-30 x 0.3-0.8 cm, narrowed and tapering at base, green or glaucous; sheaths bearded at mouth, basal ones densely woolly hairy with remnant bases; ligules thin, truncate, membranous, fimbriate. Racemes 3-5, digitate or subdigitate, 5-12 cm long. Rhachis and pedicels hairy. Spikelets ovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long; lower glume ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 x 1-2 mm, acuminate, shortly aristate, chartaceous, 3-5-nerved, margins ciliate; upper glume ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-6 x 2 mm, acuminate, aristate, chartaceous, 5-nerved, 2-keeled; keels long ciliate. Lower floret male. Upper floret bisexual; first lemma ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 x 1.5-2 mm, coriaceous or crustaceous, 3-5 nerved; palea deeply notched, c. 1 mm, delicate; second lemma elliptic-lanceolate, 5-6 x 1-2 mm, aristate, coriaceous, 3-5-nerved, arista 3-4 mm long; palea oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 x 1-1.5 mm, subcoriaceous or chartaceous, 2-keeled.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-June
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District(s):
Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along margins of 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:
Pavagada
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