Sir, This grass is also *Coix gigantea*, identified by Manoj Sir, also in another post/thread - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion.
Thank you very much. Regards, surajit On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:54 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <[email protected]> > Date: 4 November 2012 18:19 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:137292] Re: Coix exploded from Hooghly > To: manoj chandran <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > Good evening Sir, > > Visited the grass at the same place today. Could not find any hair on leaf > surface and leaf base. However, the place is so densely populated by wild > herbs and climbers it was not possible to see through them whether there > was any floating root. It was also not possible to enter into the ditch. It > appears to me that the stem is not succulent, attaching a picture (pic > DSCN6667) of a stem, cut midway. > > I have uprooted one, might be a branch (pic DSCN6657). I give here the > stats:- > > 1) no hair or glandular hair on leaf > 2) looks like stem is not succulent > 3) seems to be no floating roots > > Height : 5.5 feet, nodes 10, rooting at lower 4 nodes, diameter less than > 1 cm, stem slightly compressed > leaf : blade 67 cm x 4.7 cm + 14 cm sheath, upto node, covering the stem. > upper surface (very) slightly rough, under surface glabrous > > It looks like that this grass is same *Coix gigantea*, recorded at > another place, and have been identified by you in another post - > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/DSlTblj9k0I/discussion. > In such case i would like to add that this grass is very common here, > growing on roadside, ditches, uncultivated lands, low land beside rail > tracks and in wasteplace. > > Thank you very much, > > Regards, > > surajit > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM, manoj chandran <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Good work. Only two possibilities are Coix gigantea and Coix aquatica. >> See whether the leaves are clothed with very dense glandular bristle like >> hairs on the upper surface and also see if the stems are succulent and have >> floating roots at the nodes. >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2012 10:39:23 PM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: >>> >>> Sir, >>> >>> Please do not laugh at me if i did make some silly mistake. I am not >>> used to it. I found a *Coix* very near my home, yesterday, and tried to >>> dissect it! >>> >>> Let me try to ID this species based on its spikelet only! >>> >>> Well, large wings on glumes of male spikelet = *C. gigantea*, but are >>> those wings large enough? I am not sure because i haven't seen *Coix >>> lacryma-jobi* yet! >>> >>> Species : *Coix gigantea*? >>> H & H : grass in roadside water logged ditch, about 6 feet high above >>> the water surface >>> Date : 25/10/12 >>> Place : Hooghly >>> >>> Thank you & Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2000 members & > 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > --
