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Fimbristylis hispidula

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Identification
Fimbristylis hispidula (Vahl) Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Scirpus hispidulus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Fimbristylis hispidula
  • Isolepis pubigera
  • Scirpus gracillimus
  • Bulbostylis argenteobrunea
  • Fimbristylis oligostachys
  • Fimbristylis exilis
  • Bulbostylis trichobasis
  • Isolepis unrecorded
  • Scirpus hildebrandtii
  • Scirpus hispidulus
  • Scirpus purpureoater
  • Abildgaardia hispidula
  • Relchela panicoides
  • Scirpus eriophorus
  • Fimbristylis purpureo-atra
  • Bulbostylis johnstonii
  • Isolepis sieberi
  • Scirpus trichobasis
  • Fimbristylis squarrosa
  • Isolepis abyssinica
Common name
  • geémún beéraá = whisker of the rat (auctt.) geémùn kwaádoó = whisker of the frog (auctt.) geémùn-kuúsuù = rat’s whisker (auctt.) liìdíin-tuújií (JMD; ZOG) riídín tuújií = bustard’s sesame (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • barkorni buzi (RP) (IVORY COAST, MANDING-DYULA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • taré-gué (A. Chev.) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tokal pul (JB) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nyina voni = ratgrass, general for Panicum, etc. (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dutiel (JMD) duttir (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • irugbọn arugbo (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • guemé n’kussu (Bartha) (NIGER, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • n’chongo mesengo (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hasukar (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS exilis Roem. et Schultes [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 149, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
FIMBRISTYLIS exilis Roem. et Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 98
FIMBRISTYLIS hispidula Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 227; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 757; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 27.
Scirpus hispidulus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 276.
Cyperus hirtus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], in Hoffm. Phytogr. Blaett. i. 6, and Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 100; Kunth, Enum. ii. 106.
Chætospora distachya Nees [family ], in Linnæa, x. 192?
Information
annual, hairy; stems tufted, 4–16 in. long, rather slender, hairy or rarely nearly glabrous; leaves 1/3– 1/2 the length of the stem, 1/12 in. broad, hairy or rarely glabrate; sheaths always hairy; umbel of 3–14 pedicelled spikelets; bracts 4–3, about as long as the umbel; spikelets 1/4– 1/3 by 1/8 in., 10–20-flowered; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, acute, chestnut-brown, puberulous; keel green, excurrent in a point; stamens 3–2; style long, slender, glabrous, branches 3, long; nut rather large, triquetrous, obovoid, pale, its subconcave faces often obscurely marked with transverse wavy lines, yellowish but finally ashy-brown. null
Range
Common throughout Africa and Madagascar, rare in Tropical America.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei! banks of the Bashee River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Natal; near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 185! Sydenham, near Durban, Wood, 1956! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 341! Kuntze, 23! Zululand, Gerrard, 490!KALAHARI REGION Kalahari, Schinz, 371! Transvaal; near Klerks-dorp, 4000 ft., McLea in Herb. Bolus, 6018!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 4372!
Notes
This species is the connecting-link between Fimbristylis and Bulbostylis; its hairy stem is common in Bulbostylis, very rare in Fimbristylis; the spikelets, with hairy glumes, resemble those of Bulbostylis. It differs from Bulbostylis in that the style is somewhat persistent; and, when it does fall, it takes the whole style-base, and does not leave behind the dark-coloured button so conspicuous on the nut of Bulbostylis.

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