Ochlandra setigera
Ochlandra setigera
Ochlandra setigera

Ochlandra setigera Gamble

  • Habit
  • Culms: caespitose
  • Culm Diameter: 1.2 - 1.8 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 25 - 30 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thin-walled
  • Height: 6 meter

  • Identification Features: Culm; smooth, nodes hardly swollen; Culm-sheaths persistent, 15-19 cm long, chartaceous; Leaves lanceolate, 12-26 cm long, 1.8-3 cm wide; Inflorescence a short terminal or axillary spike on leafy branchlets, Sterile spikelets in heads, smaller than the fertile; Caryopsis with fleshy pericarp, oblong, Endosperm farinose.
  • Flowering Cycle:
  • Distribution: India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu)
  • Altitude: 1000 meter
  • Uses: Handicrafts, Cattle fodder
Synonym of Ochlandra setigera

Neomicrocalamus setigerus (Gamble) Hsueh & T.P. Yi

Flowering Reported: Kerala; Nilambur (1988,1994) (Chand Basha and Kumar, 1994)

Remarks: Reported from Tamil Nadu, Kerala.


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