Nice Shots with description. Thanks for sharing Sir On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> *Please see the interesting discussion on this plant, a true example of > identifications get solved in this group* > > * > * > > * > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Arundo$20donax/indiantreepix/yWA3N_sCwoA/JNY5jrmMcZoJ > * > > * > * > > * > * > > *Phragmites karka* (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud > > Syn: *Arundo** karka* Retz.; *Arundo** roxburghii* Kunth; *Phragmites** > maxima* (Forssk.) Blatter & McCann; *Phragmites** nepalensis* Nees ex > Steud.; *Phragmites** roxburghii* (Kunth) Steud. > > > Common name: Tropical reed > > > Perennial reed, with creeping rhizomes. Culms erect, up to 10m high. > Leaf-blades 30-80 cm long and 12-40 nun wide, glabrous, rough to the touch > beneath (at least in the upper half), the tips attenuate and stiff > (occasionally almost smooth or with filiform tips). Panicle 30-50 cm long, > 10-20 cm wide, the lowest node often many-branched in a whorl, the branches > bare of spikelets for some distance from their base. Spikelets 9-12 mm > long, the rhachilla-hairs 4-7 mm long, rather sparse; lower glume just over > half as long as the upper; upper glume narrowly elliptic to very narrowly > elliptic, 4-6 mm long, acute to subacute; lowest lemma very narrowly > elliptic, 7.5-12 mm long; fertile lemmas very narrowly lanceolate, 85-11 mm > long. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
