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Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
Some earlier relevant feedback:
The only Coix with linear leaf and simple base is Coix gasteeni, which is the only Coix found in Australia. The photo looks like a place which has been developed recently and probably, these could be planted ones also. Kindly confirm whether it was planted and what was the source of the plant. If not, you can check nearby areas for probably wild populations. Coix aquatica has cordate leaf base like other coix species, but will have glandular hairs on the dorsal side of the leaf. This photo shows glandular hairs on some of the leaf sheaths only. You can also see the stilt roots. If there is a good population, you can also try uprooting some plants to see what the root system is like, whether it is rhizomatous, stoloniferous, spongy, etc. Well done!- from Manoj ji. |
The place where i found this grass is bordering area of three villages in Hooghly, GARALGACHA, KHANPUR and BARIJHATI. All the villages are in Chanditala Block and about 25 km from Howrah Rly. Stn. I attach three new pics, the road in one of the pics is the connecting road to villages. It was a dirt road and converted to asphalt-concrete last year. The lands on the both sides of the road are relatively low land and get submerged during rainy season. Rest of the year it is foraging area for village cattle and playground for village urchins. All those saplings and the fence therewith were planted / erected on the 30th September to commemorate the birth centenary of Dr. Siddheswar Mukhopadhyaya, the founder of our school in Garalgacha. I was not present during plantation programme. Otherwise the place was covered by roadside trees and aquatic and semi-aquatic wild species before the concretization the road. Grasses like Typha, or sages are growing here for long. This grass seems to be wild one, might have been introduced unknowingly. Any chance of coming with road materials? Because they cannot grow 5 feet in about a week or so. I have seen one or two of this grass well inside the lowland, away from the roadside. Regards, surajit
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