Scleria parvula

Primary tabs

Scleria parvula

Description

Annual. Leaves rather suddenly narrowed to the obtusish tip, glabrous, scabrid on the margins in the upper part, 2-5 mm wide; Inflorescence narrow, elongate, the terminal panicle oblong, 2-4 cm long, somewhat longer than the 1-3 distant lateral fascicles, these erect or the lower ones often pendulous, 1-3 at each node, on slender, smooth or scabrid peduncles more or less exserted from the sheaths;

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Korea present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ceylon present, Japan present, Luzon present, NE. New Guinea present, Nepal present, S. China present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa; Ceylon, India, Nepal, Thailand, Indo-China, S. China, Japan, Korea; in Malesia in the Philippines (Luzon) and NE. New Guinea.

Citation

Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 210
BOECK. 1898 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 97
Clarke 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 686
NELMES 1956 – In: Kew Bull.: 105
KERN 1961 – In: Blumea: 202
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 162
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 135
BOECK. 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 104
OHWI 1944 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B: 8