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Arundinaria wightiana
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Arundinaria wightiana Nees, Linnaea 9: 182. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 377. 1897; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1857(1285). 1934.
Arundinaria wightiana var. hispida (Steud.) Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 5. 1890; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1857(1285). 1934.
Indocalamus wightianus (Nees) Nakai, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 149. 1925.
Yushania wightiana (Nees) R.B. Majumdar in Karthik. et al., Fl. Ind. Enum. Monocotyl. 283. 1989.
Sinarundinaria wightiana (Nees) Chao & Renv., Kew Bull. 44.356.1989.
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Description:
Culms to 8 m; nodes swollen with ciliate rim below; internodes to 30 cm; culm-sheaths to 20 cm, striate, golden-brown ciliate above; imperfect blade subulate, to 3.5 cm, scabrid. Leaf-blades 10-18 x 1.5-2.5 cm, shortly petioled, long acuminate, glabrous above and glaucescent below, margins scabrid and incurved; leaf-sheaths keeled, often tubercled hairy with a row of cilia below petiole, and with 5-8 elongate, stiff bristles at the collar; ligule truncate, fimbriate, to 0.15 cm. Panicles terminal, dense, spreading; branchlets capillary, flexuous; axils glandular. Spikelets linear, to 1.5 cm, 3-5-flowered, uppermost floret usually sterile; rachilla capillary, thickened above. Glumes ovate-acute, 5-7-veined; lemma ovate, to 0.5 cm, scaberulous below, 9-11-veined, mucronate; palea-keels ciliate. Grain elliptic, to 0.5 cm.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen and sholas
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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:
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Altitude:
1800-2400
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