Fimbristylis globulosa
Content
Description
Glabrous perennial with short rhizome.
Inflorescence simple or compound, with up to 40 spikelets, up to 10 cm long, not rarely much reduced.
Stamens 2-3;
Distribution
Aru Is present, Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Ceylon present, Micronesia present, Polynesia present, Ryu Kyu Is present, S. Asia present, W. and Central Java present
From Ceylon and India through S. Asia to China and the Ryu Kyu Is. to Micronesia and Polynesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, W. and Central Java, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Aru Is., New Guinea.
Uses
F. globulosa is cultivated in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Celebes, and Java. It is good for fine matting. Hats, baskets, and mats are the main products. The weaving is done as a domestic industry. A common use for the stems is as string.
Notes
The digynous plants, sometimes treated as a separate species (F. torresiana GAUDICH., F. utilis ELM.), cannot be segregated from the trigynous ones in a satisfactory way. Under culture is a stout, distigmatic race (clone?).
I have not seen F. globulosa var. javanensis , and Iriha globulosa var. robusta . The former name, based on HANS WINKLER 1441 from Borneo, was apparently intended to distinguish the Malesian plants from those of Ceylon and India. For this distinction I do not see any reason. As to the latter name ("foliis basilaribus numerosissimis robustis rigidis. Java: Rauwa Ungia"), it is not clear whether it really belongs to F. globulosa.
I have not seen F. globulosa var. javanensis , and Iriha globulosa var. robusta . The former name, based on HANS WINKLER 1441 from Borneo, was apparently intended to distinguish the Malesian plants from those of Ceylon and India. For this distinction I do not see any reason. As to the latter name ("foliis basilaribus numerosissimis robustis rigidis. Java: Rauwa Ungia"), it is not clear whether it really belongs to F. globulosa.
Citation
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 363
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 200
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 114
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 109
BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea: 45
KUNTH 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 24
KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 231
Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 95
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 114
KUNTH 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 96
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 318
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 158
F.-VILL. 1882: NOV. App.: 308
BROWN 1920: p. 348. – In: Min. Prod. Philip. For.: t. 15
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C: 115
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 215
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 322
HEYNE 1950: Nutt. Pl., ed. 3: 310
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 644
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 123
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 163: t. 172
VAHL 1806 – In: En.: 277