Ochlandra talboti Brandis

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Habit
Culms : Tufted Height: 3-6m  Diameter:1.2-1.8 cm  Culm Color:
Internode Length: 40cm  Culm Sheath Colour: smooth, striate, ciliate on the margin, rounded with two smallciliate auricles at the tip; blade subulate, acuminate, hairy within at the base; ligule short.

Length of Leaf: 20-26 cm  Breadth of Leaf : 3-3.5 cm  Leaf Shape: lanceolate

Habitat: Rain forests  Altitude:   Soil:

Native to:
Introduced to: Karnataka(Coorg,North canara)

Description of Inflorescence and Flower: terminal or axillaryspike, 10-20 cm long. Spikelets 2-6, 1-3 cm long in half whorls which are 2 cm apart at the base and congested at the topof the rachis; fertile spikelets ovoid, cylindric, few. Empty glumes 3-4, 1-1.9 cm long, broadly ovate, acute, spinous,mucronate with spreading white hairs at the tip. Lemma larger, acute, 2.8 cm long; palea similar to lemma; lodicules6-7, linear. Stamen 26-40, exserted, pendulous; filaments long, slender; anther linear, sagittate at the base. Ovaryprolonged into a slender style, 2 cm long and surmounted by 5 plumose stigmas.
Flowering Cycle:   Flowering Reported:Nort Canara(1896), Karnataka, Virajpet(1994)

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Uses: Baskets, mats

References: Seethalakshmi K. K ,1998