Fimbristylis miliacea
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Description
Glabrous annual with fibrous roots.
Leaves shorter than to as long as the stems, dorsiventrally flattened, with prominent midrib, flat, scabrid on the rib-like angles in the upper part, gradually acuminate, acute, 2-3 mm wide;
Inflorescence compound or decompound, loose, with many to numerous spike- lets, 4-10 cm long.
Stamen 1, or in some flowers 2;
Distribution
Amboina present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bohol present, Buru present, Ceylon present, Coron I present, E. Coast Res present, Halmaheira present, Kangean Arch present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Leyte present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Panay present, S. China present, Samar present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), tropical Australia present
Ceylon, throughout India to S. China and Formosa, tropical Australia; in Malesia: Sumatra (E. Coast Res.), Java, Kangean Arch., Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines (Coron I., Luzon, Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Panay, Mindanao), Celebes, Moluccas (Amboina, Buru, Halmaheira), New Guinea.
Notes
F. miliacea is everywhere much rarer than F. littoralis, but has certainly often been overlooked or taken for the latter species. It can easily be recog- nized by the leaves with prominent midrib and rib- like, not grooved margins, the apiculate, keeled glumes, and the rachilla ragged with scale-like wings after the fall of the glumes.
Like in the other spp. of sect. Miliaceae the leaves are eligulate, i.e. the blade is not separated from the sheath by a fringe of hairs. In one of the specimens of ROBINSON 1894 from Amboina, however, I found the ligule well developed.
Scirpus* benghalensis PERS. (‘Bengalia’) was published without definite indication of rank; see . CLARKE wrongly cited the name in the synonymy of F. littoralis (his F. miliacea). The type collection (L) is a mixture of F, autumnalis (L.) R. & S. and F. miliacea (F. quinquangularis).
Like in the other spp. of sect. Miliaceae the leaves are eligulate, i.e. the blade is not separated from the sheath by a fringe of hairs. In one of the specimens of ROBINSON 1894 from Amboina, however, I found the ligule well developed.
Scirpus* benghalensis PERS. (‘Bengalia’) was published without definite indication of rank; see . CLARKE wrongly cited the name in the synonymy of F. littoralis (his F. miliacea). The type collection (L) is a mixture of F, autumnalis (L.) R. & S. and F. miliacea (F. quinquangularis).
Citation
STEUD. 1854 – In: Syn.: 113
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 125
KOYAMA 1961 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Un. Tokyo: 108
KUNTH 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 96
BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea: 42
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 216
CAMUS 1912: p. 114. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: f. 15, 2
KUNTH 1909: ? Ill. Cyp.: t. 43 f. 4-6
KUNTH 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 26
KUNTH 1922 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: f. 257 & 258
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker.: 162
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 463
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 644
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 200
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 321
KERN 1955 – In: Blumea: 118
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 317