Rhynchospora panduranganii Viji, Shaju & Geethakum.

 
  • Family : CYPERACEAE
    (Sedge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in Plant list
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Margins of Evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : When mature, Rhynchospora panduranganii closely resembles immature plants of R. corymbosa and hence may have been overlooked by earlier explorers of the Biosphere Reserve.
  • Key identification features : Robust, 50 – 200 cm tall; roots spongy; culm 1 – 4 per plant striate, trigonous to triquetrous, and distally scaberulous on the angles, the base is surrounded by firm, pale brown, old leaf sheaths; leaves are basal and cauline, 4 – 7 per culm; leaf blades are wider; inflorescence umbellate with subglobose head, 8 – 15 cm in length, 4 – 6 cm across; congested and more numerous spikelets and larger achenes
  • Flower, Fruit : August-November
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Critically Endangered
  • Literature : Viji. A. R, T. Shaju & M. P. Geethakumary (2014). Rhynchospora panduranganii (Cyperaceae), a new sedge species from the Western Ghats of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India. KEW BULLETIN,69: 9519
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Rhynchospora panduranganii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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