{"id":1429108,"date":"2020-12-06T21:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1429108"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:08:09","slug":"pseudoraphis-minuta","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/pseudoraphis-minuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudoraphis minuta"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pseudoraphis minuta (Mez) Pilg., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 210 1928<\/cite>. (syn:\u00a0 Chamaeraphis minuta<\/em>\u00a0Mez<\/a>; Pseudoraphis minuta<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0laevis<\/em>\u00a0B.K.Simon<\/a>);
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Hooghly : grass : sk : 31\/5\/13<\/span><\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0Attachments\u00a0(7). 7 posts by 3 authors.
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\n<\/span><\/span>Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-\u00a0Hooghly<\/span>, don’t know,\u00a0<\/span>don’t know
\nHabitat-\u00a0Garden\/ Urban\/ Wild\/ Type-\u00a0wild
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Plant Habit- Tree\/ Shrub\/ Climber\/ Herb-\u00a0<\/span>herb
\n<\/span><\/span>Height\/Length-\u00a0<\/span>don’t know
\nLeaves Type\/ Shape\/ Size- don’t know,\u00a0<\/span>don’t know,\u00a035mm x 5mm approx.
\n<\/span>Inflorescence Type\/ Size-\u00a0<\/span>don’t know
\nFlowers Size\/ Colour\/ Calyx\/ Bracts-\u00a0<\/span>don’t know
\nFruits Type\/ Shape\/ Size Seeds-\u00a0<\/span>don’t know
\nOther Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.-\u00a0<\/span><\/span>don’t know<\/div>\n
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Before experts take care of this post let’s try to learn how to fish!
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I couldn’t find any similar looking pic in the net. Moreover, the leaves of various\u00a0Calamagrostis<\/i>\u00a0in FoC are much bigger. So, it seems to be some other grass.<\/p>\n

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The species is interesting. Unable to narrow down at the moment.
\nIs the scale showing centimeter or inches? Kindly post a clear close up image of spikelets after manually\u00a0 separating or deflexing\u00a0it away from the rachis. Also see whether the spikelets are paired and if so whether one is sessile and other is pedicelled or all are similar. Kindly do the dissection of the spikelet and post. Or you can send me a sample of the inflorescence.<\/div>\n
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It was posted in 2013. \u2026 is not responding to this post.
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I regret that I couldn’t reply to you earlier. I regret more that it has been so long since 2013 when I took those pictures.<\/div>\n
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I found this grass in a ditch alongside a railway track. I am afraid that it won’t be possible\u00a0for me\u00a0to return back to the site, or to find there, the\u00a0concerned species to collect detailed data of this species.<\/div>\n
Further, I have deleted most of the plant photographs I stored in my computer. I will search my pen drives to see if I have retained the originals of this one and certainly send you if I find some.
\nFor the time being I can only say that the scale shown in the picture is in centimeter.<\/div>\n
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I could find only these resized pictures from my saved archives.
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Can this species be related to\u00a0Pseudoraphis<\/i>, like\u00a0P. minuta<\/i>?<\/p>\n

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Could it be Leersia oryzoides<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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It has characters of several general like Pseudoraphis, Hygrorhyza, Hymenachne<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n

But after a lot of thought, I would rather like to place it in genus Eriochloa,<\/em> the inflorescence resembling Eriochloa acuminata<\/em> and spikelets resembling Eriochloa aristata<\/em>, both of which are American species.<\/div>\n
The cup below the spikelet is not clear in the picture though. The stem, node and leaf are more like Eriochloa<\/em> than the other three genera. The hairs on the spikelets are like that of Eriochloa.
\n<\/em>I suggest you could collect it again and try to see the characters in detail to confirm. Probably, It could be a described as a new species.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I love to read your analysis, … I will try my best to follow your suggestion to find this grass once again and obtain as much detailed data as I can.
\nI thank you very much for taking care of all my uploads, as well as providing me the most valuable feedback on each species. Without your tutorials I would never had dared to record any grass species.
\nThank you … for your unique patience and utmost care.<\/p>\n

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I am sending a few attachments which suggest that the species should be finalised as\u00a0Pseudoraphis minuta<\/i>. Since these are dried specimen, it may look a little different from the photographs. As per these and other sheets, this is very common in marshy river banks often found gregariously in some patches. NL Bor in GBCIP\u00a0 states ” An extremely pretty grass with dense panicles of small spikelets which vary in colour from reddish-green to deep purple red” (May be because of the purplish stamens). It also states further “The plants root in mud at the edge of bheels or lakes and send out their culms floating upon water. In Assam it covers areas which can be measured in square yards. Mooney notes on a specimen collected by him by the edge of Sar Lake Cut, Puri. “An aquatic grass growing in water up to 9 in. deep and on damp ground. The water is slightly brackish. The grass tends to grow in small gregarious patches”
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I am grateful to you for providing details on this grass species.<\/p>\n
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I kept it in my mind to revisit the place in order to\u00a0obtain\u00a0more details of this species. But, I couldn’t,, because of the suspension of local train service due to complete lock-down since April, this year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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References: POWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India<\/a> \u00a0lucidcentral<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pseudoraphis minuta (Mez) Pilg., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 210 1928. (syn:\u00a0 Chamaeraphis minuta\u00a0Mez; Pseudoraphis minuta\u00a0var.\u00a0laevis\u00a0B.K.Simon); . India to Indo-China, N. Australia: Assam, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Northern Territory, Queensland, Vietnam as per POWO; . Hooghly : grass : sk : 31\/5\/13\u00a0:\u00a0Attachments\u00a0(7). 7 posts by 3 authors. Date\/Time-\u00a024\/5\/13; 11.40 am Location-…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[9747],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1429108","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-pseudoraphis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1429108","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=1429108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1429108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1429108"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1429108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}