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| Flora of |
Kashmir |
| Botanical name |
Rottboellia exaltata Linn.f. |
| Synonyms |
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| Family |
Poaceae |
| Plant Stage |
Reproductive |
| Place of collection |
Shoepara |
| Altitude (m) |
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| Date of Collection |
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| Accession No. |
9118 |
| Total Accessions |
2 |
| Shelf Placement Cup-Board No./ Pigeon hole No. |
29/r |
| Remarks: Tall annual supported below by stilt roots, the basal sheaths painfully hispid; clums 30 cm to 3 m high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, up to 45 cm long and 2 cm wide. Raceme 3-15 cm long, glabrous, terminating in a tail of reduced spikelets, gathered into a spatheate false panicle. Sessile spikelet oblong-elliptic, pallid; tower glume 3.5-5 mm long; upper glume with the keel narrowly winged towards the tip. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly ovate, 3-5 mm long, herbaceous, green; pedicel shorter then the internode. |
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