Fimbristylis puberula (Michaux) Vahl (Q3238)

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Fimbristylis puberula is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Fimbristylis
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Fimbristylis puberula (Michaux) Vahl
Fimbristylis puberula is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Fimbristylis

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    taxon/id/Fimbristylis puberula (Michaux) Vahl
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    Fimbristylis puberula (Michaux) Vahl
    Fimbristylis puberula
    (Michaux) Vahl
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Fimbristylis puberula
    hairy fimbristylis (English)
    hairy fimbry (English)
    fimbristyle pubérulent (French)
    Plants perennial, mostly loosely cespitose, to 100 cm, bases swollen;
    rhizomes short, knotty, or scaly, slender, contorted.
    Culms sometimes solitary, narrowly linear, distally angular, glabrous.
    Leaves ascending, from 1/3 as long to equally as long as culms, glabrous to pubescent;
    sheaths apically ciliate;
    ligule essentially absent or (in rhizomatous individuals) present, complete or incomplete;
    blades narrowly linear, 1–2 mm wide, mostly strongly involute, scabridciliate.
    Inflorescences: anthelae simple or compound, compact or diffuse, mostly broad, ascending-branching;
    scapes slender, wandlike, 1 mm thick;
    lower leafy involucral-bracts exceeded by or exceeding panicle.
    Spikelets variously redbrown, broadly ovoid to lance-cylindric, 5–10 mm;
    fertile scales broadly ovate, obtuse or obtuse-angled, 2.5–3.5 mm, abaxially glabrous or variously puberulent, midrib excurrent as mucro.
    Flowers: stamens 3;
    styles 2-fid, flat, fimbriate.