Seed - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 32304 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Oryza sativa | Entry Book Number | 29.1987 | |
| Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Pakistan | TDWG Region | Pakistan | ||
| Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | Pakistan, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Karachi | ||
| Uses | SeedUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Watt Dr G | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Unhusked grain. From collector of Karachi, Bombay. Reg. no. 8324 . File nv 152-A The specimens would show it to be a stunted plant perhaps not more than 18 inches in height, though it is possible that only the tops were cut off and supplied, . It is usually described as 4 to 6 feet in height the upright stems rising from a stout creeping rhizome. The foregoing particulars are from a report by Dr Watt on the Nanoi undated. Nanoi produced in the Ghorabari, Shahbandar, and Mirpuroakro yalukas, K, arachi collectorate, Sind and collected in the months of July and August. The grass (suhungah) producing the grain grows among other kinds of grass on the marshy grounds on the banks of the Indus which are constantly washed by sweet and salt water at ebb, and flow tides respectively. The grass is gathered by the poorer classes for their own consumption, but it is sometimes exchanged for equivalent value in rice and other articles offered by petty traders going around the creeks, and two or three maunds (?, )of it are thus brought every season to Keti-bander and a small quantity exported to Karachi. A noticeable feature about the gathering of the grass is the vast amount of labour and trouble involved; it is estimated that a man engaged in a whole day cannot, collect more than 4 seers. | ||||
| Determinations: | 200.00 POACEAE Oryza sativa L. 200.00 POACEAE Oryza coarclata | ||||