Fimbristylis tenuicula
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Description
Probably annual, with fibrous roots, growing in dense tufts.
Leaves much shorter than the stems, flattish but very narrow, weak, obtusish, smooth, glabrous or sparsely hairy, with obliquely truncate, cinnamomeous, hairy sheaths, ⅓-½ mm wide;
Inflorescence always consisting of a single, terminal spikelet.
Stamen 1;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: India present, Haut Dormai present, S of Palembang, along Lake Pedammaran present, S. Sumatra present, Tenasserim present, near Blao present
Only known from a few localities in India, Tenasserim, Indo-China (Haut Dormai: near Blao); in Malesia: S. Sumatra (S of Palembang, along Lake Pedammaran).
Notes
The collection Reliquiae Helferianae 146, distributed by the National Museum in Prague as F. polytrichoides, belongs here, and is in all proba- bility not from Calcutta, but part of HELFER'S type- collection from Tenasserim.
In the Leyden Herbarium there is also an excellent collection of this species, inadequately labelled "Arch. Ind. leg. WAITZ.".
In the Leyden Herbarium there is also an excellent collection of this species, inadequately labelled "Arch. Ind. leg. WAITZ.".