Fimbristylis bisumbellata(Forssk.) Bubani [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Frank Nigel Hepper, Scirpus bisumbellatusForssk. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Frank Nigel Hepper,
Related name
Cyperus prolifer
Fimbristylis adventitia
Scirpus pallescens
Fimbristylis bisumbellata
Scirpus dichotomus
Scirpus bisumbellatus
Fimbristylis dichotoma
Flora
Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS bisumbellata (Forssk.) Bub. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Tufted annual sometimes forming very dense tussocks; stems usally 8–35 cm long and 0.5–1 mm thick, triangular, glabrous. Leaf-sheaths brownish or straw-coloured; ligule a dense rim of short hairs; blades often 2–5 cm long and 1–2 mm wide, scabrid on margin and major ribs. Inflorescence a lax anthela of one sessile spikelet and few–many stalked spikelets or new groups of sessile and stalked spikelets; peduncles slender; major involucral bract leaf-like, shorter or longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets 3–8 x c. 1.5 mm, angular, acute. Glumes 1.3–1.8 mm long, somewhat concave, brown with a green 3-nerved midrib excurrent in a short mucro; margin often shortly ciliate. Stamen 1. Style with 2 stigmas. Nutlet 0.6–0.7 x 0.4–0.5 mm, obovate, biconvex, conspicuously trabeculate with 5–7 longitudinal rows of cells on each side, tubercles absent.
Range
S2, 3 Old World tropics from West Africa and the Mediterranean to Australia.
