| Slender Nut-Rush |
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| File size | 463667 |
| Original date | 7/7/22 3:16 PM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 46.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Scleria lithosperma Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Synonyms: Scirpus lithospermus, Hypoporum lithospermum
Synonyms: Scirpus lithospermus, Hypoporum lithospermum
Slender Nut-Rush is a clustered perennial grass with
slender stems 40-60 cm or more tall. Leaves have a blunt tip, blade
glaucouss, narrowly linear, 1-4 mm wide; sheaths velvet-hairy in the
middle of the sides. Flowers are borne in a narrow, very loose and up
to 30 cm long, branch-end panicle and 2-3 diatant in leaf-axils ones.
Spikelets are few; primary bracts usually much exceeding their
panicles. Spikelets are bisexual, 1-3 in clusters, with 1 female flower
and a few to several male flowers, 3-5 mm long. Glumes are ovate to
lanceshaped, tapering, with a green rough keel, rest streaked reddish
brown. Disc reduced to a narrow, brown, minutely glandular ring
concrete with the base of the nut. The native range of this species is
Tropics & Subtropics, including Eastern Himalaya. Flowering: All year.
Medicinal uses:
Root decoction is given after
parturition. Young tops are given to children for enlarged stomach.
Medicinal uses:
Root decoction is given after
parturition. Young tops are given to children for enlarged stomach.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Kaigal, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. |
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