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Fimbristylis miliacea

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Name

Identification
Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudich. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Marais, W., Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Scirpus triangularis unrecorded [family CYPERACEAE ] Scirpus quadrangularis Thou. [family CYPERACEAE ] Scirpus tetragonus (R.Br.) Poir. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Scirpus tetragonus
  • Scirpus quadrangularis
  • Fimbristylis quadrangularis
  • Fimbristylis littoralis
  • Scirpus miliaceus
  • Fimbristylis quinquangularis
  • Scirpus triangularis
  • Scirpus indet.
  • Fimbristylis miliacea

Flora

Entry for Fimbristylis miliacea Vahl [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
Fimbristylis miliacea Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 287. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 230; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 43; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 644, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 607; K. Schum, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 81.
Scirpus miliaceus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Fl. Japon. 37, not of Linn.
Scirpus sp. n. 77 Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], Descr. et Ic. 57, t. 5, fig. 2.
Information
A glabrous annual. Stems 8–24 in. long, tufted, often flattened at the base with apparently distichous leaves, at the top with 4–5 equal angles. Leaves usually 1/2 the length of the stem, sometimes overtopping the stem, sometimes 0, narrowly linear. Umbel compound, often 6 in. in diam., with 60–100 solitary spikelets; bracts about 1 in. long. Spikelets 1/12 in. in diam., globose or short-cylindric, obtuse. Style 3-fid. Nut less than 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, with delicate transverse bars in vertical series, straw-coloured or pale brown, smooth or more or less tubercled.
Range
Common in the Mascarene Islands and throughout all tropical and subtropical areas, except Africa, whence only the above collections have been seen.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 212! 327! 389!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Boivin!

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