WorldFloraDB - Thamnochortus insignis

Characteristics

Plants tufted, 1-2 m high; without spreading rhizomes or stolons. Culms long, straight, unbranched, smooth, olive-green. Leaf sheaths closely convolute, apical margins broadly chartaceous and soon decaying, mucro absent or minute. Male inflorescences with 21-100 spikelets; spathes persistent, upper margins lacerated and decaying. Female inflorescences with 11-50 spikelets; spathes shorter or as long as spikelets, persistent, chartaceous. Spikelets 15-45 mm long. Ovary unilocular; styles plumose, white. Flowering time Mar., Apr. Fruit an indehiscent nut, with orbicular-winged dispersal unit.

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A reed like tussock. It grows 2 m tall. It spread 3 m wide. The stalks are simple and smooth. Male and female plants are separate. The flowering shoots are small and golden-brown.

Dioecious, tufted perennial to 2 m, fertile culms simple, smooth. Female spikelets 15-25 mm, pale brown.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	dioecy
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Mature width (meter)	3.0
Mature height (meter)	1.5 - 2.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in coastal sands.

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Usage

The stems are pulled apart at the internodes and the tips eaten.

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Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds. The seeds are like small nutlets inside the flower. Seeds should be treated with smoke of soaked in smoke-water solution.

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