Ochlandra travancorica

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Ochlandra travancorica
Ochlandra travancorica

Ochlandra travancorica (Bedd.) Gamble

  • Habit
  • Culms: Caespitose
  • Culm Diameter: 2.5 - 5 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 45 - 60 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thin-walled
  • Height: 2 - 6 meter
  • Identification Features: Culm Color-grayish-green, rough, Culm-nodes swollen; Culm-sheaths deciduous, 15-20 cm long, pubescent, with appressed tawny or black hairs, hairy on margins, truncate at apex; Leaves lanceolate or oblong, 9-30 cm long, 5-12 cm wide; Inflorescence a sub-verticillate spicate panicle with a few large fertile spikelets and a few much smaller sterile spikelets in the axils; Caryopsis with fleshy pericarp, oblong, 5 cm long, Endosperm farinose.
  • Flowering Cycle: 7 - 13 years
  • Distribution: India (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu)
  • Uses: Handicrafts, Pulp and Paper, Umbrella handles, Fishing rods, Walls of huts, Thatching, Bamboo ply
Vernacular names of Ochlandra travancorica

Etta, Kar-eetta, Vei (Kerala); Eeral, Eera-kalli, Iral, Irul, Ita-kalli, Nanal, Odai (Tamil Nadu)

Synonym of Ochlandra travancorica

Beesha travancorica Bedd., Ochlandra sivagiriana (Gamble) E.G.Camus, Ochlandra rheedii Benth. ex Gamble var. sivagiriana Gamble, Ochlandra soderstromiana M.Kumar & Sequiera, Ochlandra kadambarnii M.Kumar, Ochlandra travancorica (Bedd.) Benth. ex Gamble var. hirsuta Gamble, Melocanna travancorica F.Muell., Ochlandra scriptoria var. sivagiriana (Gamble) C.E.C.Fisch.

Flowering Reported: 1868, 1875, 1882, 1905, Kerala (1976) Gregarious, Southern Western Ghats (1988, 1992, 1993)

Remarks: Reported from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.

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