Scleria scrobiculata subsp. scrobiculata
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Description
Perennial.
Leaves in the middle part of the stems clustered, in pseudowhorls of 2-5, gradually narrowed upwards, scabrid on the margins and the main nerves, glabrous, rarely hairy, 4-20 mm wide;
Inflorescence broad, up to 70 cm long, rather loose to dense, consisting of a large, broadly pyramidal terminal panicle and up to 7, single or binate lateral ones;
Distribution
Andamans present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Carolines present, Johore present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Pacific: Samoa (Samoa present), Palau Is present
Thailand, Indo-China, Andamans, through Malesia to Carolines, Palau Is. and Samoa; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Johore, once collected), Sumatra (very rare), Java, and Borneo; common in the Philippines and the Lesser Sunda Is., and probably not rare in Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea.