Fimbristylis salbundia
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Description
Glabrous perennial with shortly creeping, obliquely descending rhizome covered with ovate-lanceo- late scales.
Leaves of the flowering stems reduced to 2-4 blade- less sheaths, the lower ones ovate or oblong-ovate, fuscous, the upper ones tubular, herbaceous, with obliquely truncate, membranous upper margin, up to 15 cm long;
Inflorescence compound or decompound, loose or rather dense, with many spikelets, 2-4(-7) cm long and wide.
Stamens (2-)3;
Distribution
Annam present, Asia-Tropical: India present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Australasia, Burma present, Karo Plateau present, Luzon present, Mt Kerintji present, N. Thailand present, N. and Central Celebes present, Tapianuli present
India, Burma, N. Thailand, Annam; in Malesia: Sumatra (Karo plateau, Tapianuli, Mt Kerintji), Philippines (Luzon), N. and Central Celebes, New Guinea. CLARKE, l.c., wrongly re- corded it from Australia.