Good evening Sir, Manoj Sir asked me if i could find its occurrence in the wild and ascertain if it is imported somehow in that area. I will try to find out.
There is a record in Australian website on this unique grass - http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/5636a653-0e43-4448-b58d-49d61f01bbb1;jsessionid=467E4B9CA7B8B9C0ABA0154CE328B4FF Thank you & Regards, surajit On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:12 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > The only Coix with linear leaf and simple base is Coix gasteeni, which is > the only Coix found in Australia. The photo looks like a place which has > been developed recently and probably, these could be planted ones also. > Kindly confirm whether it was planted and what was the source of the plant. > If not, you can check nearby areas for probably wild populations. Coix > aquatica has cordate leaf base like other coix species, but will have > glandular hairs on the dorsal side of the leaf. This photo shows glandular > hairs on some of the leaf sheaths only. You can also see the stilt roots. > If there is a good population, you can also try uprooting some plants to > see what the root system is like, whether it is rhizomatous, stoloniferous, > spongy, etc. Well done!- from Manoj ji. > > > The place where i found this grass is bordering area of three villages in > Hooghly, GARALGACHA, KHANPUR and BARIJHATI. All the villages are in > Chanditala Block and about 25 km from Howrah Rly. Stn. > I attach three new pics, the road in one of the pics is the connecting > road to villages. It was a dirt road and converted to asphalt-concrete last > year. The lands on the both sides of the road are relatively low land and > get submerged during rainy season. Rest of the year it is foraging area for > village cattle and playground for village urchins. > All those saplings and the fence therewith were planted / erected on the > 30th September to commemorate the birth centenary of Dr. Siddheswar > Mukhopadhyaya<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Garalgacha-Science-Club/266325036712910?sk=notes>, > the founder of our school in Garalgacha. I was not present during > plantation programme. > Otherwise the place was covered by roadside trees and aquatic and > semi-aquatic wild species before the concretization the road. Grasses like > *Typha*, or sages are growing here for long. > This grass seems to be wild one, might have been introduced unknowingly. > Any chance of coming with road materials? Because they cannot grow 5 feet > in about a week or so. I have seen one or two of this grass well inside the > lowland, away from the roadside. > Regards, > surajit > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <[email protected]> > Date: 17 October 2012 23:58 > Subject: [efloraofindia:135430] grass Coix again 17/10/12 sk > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Sir, > > This seems to be another *Coix*, a slimmer species with much slimmer > leaves, found in a marsh at a outskirt. Could this be a variety of *Coix > aquatica* > Roxburgh<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200025078>? > I have recorded photographs of 3 individual tufts and i hope there is no > mix up. > > Species : *Coix sp.*? > > Habit & Habitat : > slender grass in a marshy low land, > 5 feet or more tall, > stem erect, about 7 mm wide, > leaves more than 75 cm x 13 mm > > Date : 17/10/12, 1.30 p.m. > Place : Khanpur-Barijhati (Hooghly) > > Thank you & Regards, > > surajit > > -- > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1980 members & > 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > --
