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Oropetium<\/i> thomaeum<\/i> (L.f.) Trin., Fund. Agrost. 98 1820<\/i>. (Syn: Microchloa<\/i> thomaea<\/i> (L.f.) R.Br.<\/span><\/a>; Nardus<\/i> thomaea<\/i> L.f.<\/span><\/a>; Rottboellia<\/i> pilosa<\/i> Willd.<\/span><\/a>; Rottboellia<\/i> thomaea<\/i> (L.f.) Willd.<\/span><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Tufted annuals; culms erect, 5 cm high, branched; nodes glabrous. Leaves few, scattered, blade 1-2.5 cm long, filiform or conduplicate, margins with tubercle based hairs; sheaths small, shortly keeled; ligule narrow, membranous. Spikes terminal, solitary. 2.5-4 cm long. cylindrical; rachis compressed, scabrous. Spikelets solitary, biseriate, sunken in the cavities of the rachis along the sides; glumes persistent, unequal, lower one minute, broadly triangular, upper glume 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, smooth, muticous; floret one, bisexual; lemma similar but shorter than the upper glume, cymbiform, obtuse or emarginate; palea similar to lemma, bicuspidate; stamens 3; styles 2, free, stigmas plumose.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: November-December<\/span><\/div>\n
Shrublands and dry deciduous forests<\/span><\/div>\n
Tropical Africa and South Asia
\n<\/span>(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi\u00a0<\/span>from India Biodiversity Portal<\/span><\/a>)
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Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin SN Oct 32<\/a> : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1).<\/div>\n
Oropetium thomaeum <\/i>(L.f.) Trin,
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References:
\n<\/span>POWO<\/a> \u00a0The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0Grassbase<\/a> Flora of Pakistan<\/a> \u00a0FOP illustration<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0An Excursion Flora of Central Tamilnadu, India<\/a> By K. M. Matthew\u00a0 (1995- Details) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin., Fund. Agrost. 98 1820. (Syn: Microchloa thomaea (L.f.) R.Br.; Nardus thomaea L.f.; Rottboellia pilosa Willd.; Rottboellia thomaea (L.f.) Willd.); . NE. & E. Tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China: Bangladesh, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8250],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1379065","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-oropetium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1379065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1379065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1379065"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1379065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}