Fimbristylis Vahl (Q3236)

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Fimbristylis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Abildgaardieae
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Fimbristylis Vahl
Fimbristylis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Abildgaardieae

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    taxon/id/Fimbristylis Vahl
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    Fimbristylis Vahl
    Fimbristylis
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Fimbristyle (English)
    Worldwide
    mostly subtropical and tropical
    mostly in sunny
    moist to wet places
    Herbs, annual or perennial, usually cespitose, rhizomatous or not.
    Culms sometimes solitary, scapose, stiff or flaccid, terete, compressed, or 3–5-angled, coarse or fine.
    Leaves basal, distichous or polystichous;
    sheaths open apically, shorter than blade, with broad scarious margins;
    ligule absent at junction with blade or, if present, of erect short hairs, transverse, continuous or interrupted;
    blades flat or variously folded, terete, or sulcate, not prominently keeled on abaxial surface, the widest not more than 2 mm wide.
    Inflorescences simple or compound anthelae, rarely capitate;
    spikelets 1–80+, rarely single;
    involucral-bracts 2–5, spreading or rarely erect, scalelike or leaflike.
    Spikelets mainly ovoid to lanceoloid or cylindric, sometimes compressed;
    scales 8–100+, spirally arranged, each subtending flower or proximal 1–2 empty.
    Flowers bisexual;
    styles flattened or subterete, 2–3-fid, base enlarged, deciduous.
    Achenes biconvex or trigonous, reticulate-honeycombed.