Fimbristylis bisumbellata
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Description
Annual with fibrous roots.
Leaves shorter to somewhat longer than the stems, flat, abruptly acuminate, glabrous or pubescent beneath, scabrid on the margins in the upper part, 1-2 mm wide;
Inflorescence compound or decompound, loose, with many spikelets, 2-6 cm across.
Stamen 1;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya present; Philippines (Philippines present), Australasia, E. Java present, Luzon present, Modjokerto present, N.S. Wales present, Old World tropics present, along Brantas R present, the Mediterranean region present
From the Mediterranean region through the Old World Tropics to Australia (N.S. Wales); in Malesia with certainty only known from E. Java (Modjokerto, along Brantas R.) and the Philippines (Luzon).
There are also specimens in the Florence Herbarium from "Java, LABILLARDIERE", and in the British Museum from "Malaya; probably Borneo, LOBB" without precise localities.
There are also specimens in the Florence Herbarium from "Java, LABILLARDIERE", and in the British Museum from "Malaya; probably Borneo, LOBB" without precise localities.
Notes
MERRILL merged the Philippine collections into F. dichotoma (L.) VAHL (as F. annua R. & S.), but it is one of the best characterized species of the difficult group, readily distinguishable by its angular spikelets and membranous, acutely keeled, mucro- nulate glumes.
Citation
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java. p 199
FISCHER 1935: Kew Bull. p 149
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn. p 111
BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea. p 12
OHWI 1944 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B. p 85
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 319
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr. p 310
BUB. 1936: p. 1898. – In: Fl. Madr. in corrig.
KERN 1955 – In: Blumea. p 135
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind. p 635
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C. p 102
KOYAMA 1961 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Un. Tokyo. p 113
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3. p 466
KUNTH 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 93