Fuirena umbellata

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Description

Perennial with short thick rhizome. Leaves much shorter than the stems, rather rigid, flat, acute, glabrous or ciliate at the base, very rarely pubescent, with 5 prominent nerves, (5-)8-15(-25) mm wide, the lower ones very short; Inflorescence usually with a terminal partial inflorescence and several axillary ones, the latter single or binate, on pubescent peduncles. Stamens (2-)3;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Maluku (Maluku), Lesser Sunda Is, tropical and subtropical, not too dry regions of the whole world present

Widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical, not too dry regions of the whole world, presumably common throughout Malesia, but not yet collected in the Lesser Sunda Is. and the Moluccas; according to BACKER (1928, l.c.) in Java less common than F. ciliaris.

Notes

Usually stouter and more glabrous than F. ciliaris, with broader leaves and much more compound inflorescence, but these characters are all highly variable. Specimens with strongly pilose stems, leaf-blades and sheaths are very rare. The two spp. can always be distinguished with certainty by the quite different shape of the hypogynous scales.

Citation

STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 126

ROTTB. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 116

KURZ 1864 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 224

STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 127

VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming.: 156

BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea: 110

Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 162

K. SCH.& LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 194

Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 328

BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 16

KERN 1968 – In: Back.& Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 457

Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 329

Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 337

ROTTB. 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 9

Merr. 1912: En. Borneo: 58

S. T. BLAKE 1947 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 228

ZOLL. 1854 – In: Syst. Verz.: 61

ROTTB. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 80

Kük. 1924 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 52

Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 101

HASSK. 1848: Pl.Jav.Rar.: 58

HASSK. 1842 – In: Flora: Beibl. 3

Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 666

KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 185

CAMUS 1912: p. 141. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: f. 18, 6

BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 146: t.147

NEES 1854 – In: Hook., J. Bot. Kew Misc. 6: 28

VAHL 1806 – In: En.: 383

VALCK. SUR. 1912 – In: Nova Guinea: 706

Ridl. 1906 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 224

F.-VILL. 1882: NOV. App.: 308

MOR. 1846: Syst. Verz.: 97

ROTTB. 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 284