Scleria sumatrensis
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Description
Perennial.
Leaves in the middle part of the stems (and lower bracts) clustered in pseudo-whorls of 3-5, gradually narrowed upwards, scabrous on the margins and the main nerves in the upper part, glabrous or puberulous at the base, up to 13 mm wide;
Inflorescence oblong, decompound, usually very dense, rarely rather loose, the terminal panicle up to 25 cm long, the lateral ones 2-3 together, on long peduncles;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Basilan present, Ceylon present, Djatiroto present, E. Java present, Kolonedale present, Leyte present, Mindanao present, Palawan present, Puger present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Sumatra and adjacent islands present, W. Carolines present, W. Java present
Ceylon and India to Formosa, Indo-China, and Queensland; W. Carolines; in Malesia: Sumatra and adjacent islands, Malay Peninsula, W. Java, E. Java (Djatiroto, Puger), Borneo, Celebes (Kolonedale), Philippines (Palawan, Mindanao, Basilan, Leyte) .
Citation
KERN 1961 – In: Blumea: 182
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 106
BOECK. 1874 – In: Linnaea: 513
RETZ. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 135
RETZ. 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 1-2
Miq. 1861: Sum.: 262, 602
Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 113
RETZ. 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 485
CAMUS 1912: p. 170. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: f. 21,9
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 171
UITTIEN 1949 – In: Backer, Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 10: fam. 246, p. 54
Clarke 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 693
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 67
WILLD. 1805 – In: Sp. Pl.: 315
RETZ. 1898 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 103
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 179
NEES 1834 – In: Wight, Contr.: 116
KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 357