Fimbristylis puberula |
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hairy fimbry |
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Habit | 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. |
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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, scabrid-ciliate. |
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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. |
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Spikelets | variously red-brown, 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. |
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Flowers | stamens 3; styles 2-fid, flat, fimbriate. |
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Achenes | yellowish to dark brown, lenticular-obovoid, 1 mm, with 11–20 vertical lines of horizontally rectangular or isodiametric, distinct or indistinct pits. |
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2n | = 20. |
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Fimbristylis puberula |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX; UT; VA; ON
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 23. | ||||
Parent taxa | Cyperaceae > Fimbristylis | ||||
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Synonyms | Scirpus puberulus | ||||
Name authority | (Michaux) Vahl: Enum. Pl. 2: 289. (1805) | ||||
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