Scleria levis Retz.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Cyperaceae > Scleria > S. levis

Description: Perennial herbs, ca. 0.8-1.25 m tall; rhizomes woody, creeping up to 8 cm long; stems slender, triquetrous, 2 mm in diam., villous. Leaf sheath triquetrous with 0.2 cm broad wings; ligules ovate, ciliate; lamina ca. 20-40 x 0.5-0.8 cm, chartaceous; involucral bracts leaflike, basalmost to 13 cm; bractlets setaceous, auriculate at base, auricles barbate. Inflorescences in terminal paniculate, with 1 or 2 lateral branches, ca. 4-10 cm long; branches 3-8 × 1.5-3 cm; spikelets 1 or 2 in a cluster, brown, unisexual, sessile, ca. 0.3 cm; Male spikelets narrowly ovoid to oblong-ovoid; glumes 0.15-0.3 cm, keeled, thickly membranous; Female spikelets usually at basal part of branch, narrowly ovoid; glumes oblong-ovate, broadly ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, keeled, with rust-colored short lines; Male flowers: stamens 3; anthers linear, ca. 1.3 mm; Female flowers: stigmas 3; disk pale yellow, slightly narrower than nutlet, deeply 3-lobed; lobes lanceolate-triangular, margin reflexed. Nutlet white, spherical to ovoid, ca. 2 mm in diam., bluntly 3-sided, ± smooth to rugulose, apex tipped.

Flowering and Flowering : June-September

Uses: Folk medicine

Cultivation : wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org