Fimbristylis salbundia

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Fimbristylis salbundia

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.

Notes

Very similar in habit to F. aphylla. F. salbundia is characterized by the darker spikelets angular by reason of the keeled glumes, the slightly longer glumes, the number of stamens and especially by the different marking of the nut.

Citation

Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 646
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 113
BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea: 44
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 125
KERN 1955 – In: Blumea: 119
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 216