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Ischaemum muticum L.
Synonym
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Ischaemum muticum var. aristuliferum
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Family
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Poaceae/Gramineae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Tagadi
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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July-March
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Distribution
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Australia, China, south-east Asia to Polynesia, Sri Lanka,
India
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Distribution
in kerala
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Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur
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Habitat
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Banks of backwaters
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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The plant is used to protect soil from erosion (especially
coastal sand dunes) and to make compost and mulch.
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Key botanical characters :
Stoloniferous
perennial herbs, culms 30-50 cm high, slender, creeping or erect; nodes
glabrous. Leaves 4-12 x 0.3-0.6 cm, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, upper
glume, boat-shaped, lanceolate when spread, sharply keeled,
minutely winged at apex, coriaceous, faintly 3-5 nerved; lower floret male;
lemma , lanceolate, shortly acuminate, delicate, hyaline,
faintly 3-5 nerved, margins inturned, glabrous; palea lanceolate, delicate, hyaline, 2-keeled, 2-nerved, glabrous; lodicules 2, oblong or obovate, 2-horned at apex; stamens 3,
anthers 1.5-2 mm long, filaments short; upper floret bisexual; lemma , entire or very rarely notched, ovate scaberulous, coriaceous,
smooth and glabrous, faintly 11-13 nerved, margins inturned; upper glume , lanceolate, keel rounded, coriaceous, smooth and glabrous;
florets similar to that of sessile spikelets.
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