Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
FIMBRISTYLIS pilosa Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 290. —Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 32; Kunth, Enum. ii. 235 in note (i.e. his plant “spicis robustioribus ellipticis obtusis”); Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 122.
FIMBRISTYLIS castanea Boeck. var. thonningiana [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 19.
FIMBRISTYLIS communis Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150 partly; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124.
Scirpus pilosus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], Encycl. Suppl. v. 101, not of Retz.
Notes
In this genus, no name has been so misapplied and confused both in the textbooks and in the herbaria as F. pilosa. The hairy forms (or varieties) of F. diphylla are numerous and abundant, especially in Malaya; and these are often named in herbaria, probably by guess from the name, F. pilosa, Vahl (which they are not); and this is the plant reduced correctly by Kunth, Boeckeler, &c. to F. diphylla, Vahl. The true F. pilosa, Vahl has not been much collected, and differs much, essentially in the non-trabeculate nut. The name F. pilosa, K. Schumann, is merely a book synonym for the earlier F. africana, Durand & Schinz, below, a species of another section.
