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Ochlandra beddomei
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Ochlandra beddomei Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 7: 124. t. 110. 1896; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 419. 1899; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1863(1289). 1934; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 819. 1997; Seethalakshmi & Muktesh, Bamboos India 178. 1998; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 993. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Paloda, Ameioda
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Description:
Culms 10-12 m high, 3-4 cm in diameter, nodal ridges minutely pubescent; internodes 15-17 cm long; culm sheaths deciduous, 11 x 3.5 cm, becoming smaller towards the tips of the culms, broadly oblong, abruptly acuminate at tip and hairy at the constriction, tips reflexed or horizontal later. Leaves 10-14 x 1.5-2.5 cm, lanceolate, long-acuminate with a twisted, setaceous tip, rounded or slightly cuneate below, glabrous except on veins and margins, secondary nerves c. 8 pairs with 6-7 pairs of intermediates; seeding leaves much larger, to 50 cm long; leaf sheath minutely pubescent and striate, mouth callose with a few, erect, stiff, pale bristles, base auricled; ligule very small; petiole to 5 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary or terminal spikate panicles. Spikelets verticelled, 1-flowered, 2-3.5 cm long, covered with bulbous based, spreading, brown hairs; outer glumes empty, ovate-mucronate, many-nerved, hirsute, to 2 cm long; lemma 2.8 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, glabrous, many nerved; palea shorter than lemma, blunt. Lodicules 5, 2-2.5 x 0.2-0.4 cm, linear, obtuse, acute or forked at tip, 2-5 nerved, glabrous. Stamens many, exserted; filaments free; anthers narrow, 1.2-1.6 cm long. Ovary glabrous; perigynium produced into a stylar sheath; stigmas 6, linear, plumose. Caryopsis to 3 x 2 cm, rounded or obovoid, subtended by persistent glumes, glabrous, beak to 2.5 cm, pericarp thick and fleshy.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Banks of streams
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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:
Near Threatened (NT)
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Altitude:
1000-1500
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Localities:
Thalichola, Machiri
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