Scleria mikawana

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Scleria mikawana

Description

Annual. Leaves rather abruptly narrowed to the obtusish or acutish tip, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous on the margins and main nerves in the upper part, 2½-4(-7?) mm wide; Inflorescence narrow, elongate, consisting of a terminal panicle and 1-2 lateral, remote, spike-like ones, with few spikelets, the terminal panicle somewhat longer than the lateral ones, these single at the nodes, on scarcely exserted, smooth peduncles;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: India present; New Guinea present, Ceylon present, Japan present, Papua present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa; Ceylon and India to Japan; in Malesia: a few times collected in New Guinea (Papua).

Citation

NELMES 1956 – In: Kew Bull.: 107
OHWI 1944 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B: 7
Clarke 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 686
PIÉRART 1953: Lejeunia, Mem. 13: 43: t. 2, f. 9, 10, 22
KERN 1961 – In: Blumea: 199
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 225