Scleria poaeformis

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Description

Glabrous perennial with thick, horizontally creeping rhizome. Leaves mainly basal and subbasal (1-3 higher on the stem), rather abruptly narrowed to the obtusish, somewhat cucullate tip, septate-nodulose, smooth, or scabrid on the margins and the 3 prominent nerves, up to 25 mm wide; Inflorescence as a rule a single, compound, long-peduncled panicle with a small setaceous bract at the base, or ebracteate, ovate or elliptic in outline, 10-20 by 5-10 cm, very rarely a lateral panicle in the axil of a leafy bract added;

Distribution

Africa present: Mozambique (Mozambique present), Aru Is present, Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Atjeh present, Ceylon present, Johore present, Kedah present, Luzon present, Malacca present, NE. New Guinea present, Palawan present, Palembang present, Papua present, Perak present, Perlis present, SE. Celebes present, SE. India present, Trengganu present, W. Java present, Zanzibar present, tropical Australia present

Africa (Zanzibar, Mozambique); Ceylon and SE. India through Thailand and Indo-China to Hainan, and through Malesia to tropical Australia; widely spread in Malesia, but very local: Sumatra (Atjeh, Palembang), Malay Peninsula (Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Trengganu, Malacca, Johore, Singapore), W. Java, Borneo, Philippines (Luzon, Palawan), SE. Celebes, New Guinea (Papua, NE. New Guinea), Aru Is.

Uses

In W. Java the leaves are sometimes used for making mats.

Citation

NEES 1834 – In: Wight, Contr.: 116

Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 342

KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 358

PRESL 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 134

STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 169

Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 110

Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 177

FISCHER 1931: Kew Bull.: 265

S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 231

RETZ. 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 485

WILLD. 1805 – In: Sp. Pl.: 316

KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 356

CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 164

UITTIEN 1949 – In: Backer, Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 10: fam. 246, p. 57

KERN 1961 – In: Blumeal: 178

NEES 1834 – In: Wight, Contr.: 118

PRESL 1898 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 101

STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 179

Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 432

PRESL 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 105

STEEN. 1948 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 399

Clarke 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 691

Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 67

BOECK. 1874 – In: Linnaea: 492