Fimbristylis vahlii

(Lamarck) Link

Hort. Berol. 1: 287. 1827.

Illustrated
Basionym: Scirpus vahlii Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 139. 1791 (as vhalii)
Synonyms: Fimbristylis apus (A. Gray) S. Watson Fimbristylis congesta Torrey Fimbristylis vincentii Steudel Isolepis vahlii (Lamarck) Kunth Scirpus apus A. Gray
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 127. Mentioned on page 122, 125.

Plants annual, cespitose, delicate, 4–15 cm, bases soft; rhizomes absent. Leaves polystichous, mostly spreading or excurved, often exceeding culms; sheaths entire, abaxially smooth or sparsely hirtellous; ligule absent; blades filiform, to 0.5 mm wide, somewhat involute, abaxially glabrous or ascending-strigillose. Inflorescences terminal; spikelets sessile or subsessile in single capitate leafy-involucrate cluster; scapes filiform; involucral bracts leafy, setaceous, greatly overtopping inflorescence. Spikelets greenish, cylindric to lanceoloid-cylindric, 5–10 mm; fertile scales narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm, acute, glabrous, midrib strong, excurrent as cusp. Flowers: stamens 1; styles 2-fid, slender, bulbous-based, smooth or papillate. Achenes pale, tumidly obovoid, 0.5–0.7 mm, cancellate, pits horizontally rectangular in 5–7 vertical rows per side. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall.
Habitat: Moist to wet, alluvial or mineralized banks, shores, fluctuating pond and lake edges, often a “drawdown” plant around stock tanks and reservoirs
Elevation: 0–500 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ariz., Ark., Calif., Fla., Ga., Ill., Kans., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Nebr., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Mexico, Central America, South America.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Robert Kral +
(Lamarck) Link +
Scirpus vahlii +
Ala. +, Ariz. +, Ark. +, Calif. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Mexico +, Central America +  and South America. +
0–500 m +
Moist to wet, alluvial or mineralized banks, shores, fluctuating pond and lake edges, often a “drawdown” plant around stock tanks and reservoirs +
Fruiting summer–fall. +
Hort. Berol. +
Illustrated +
Fimbristylis apus +, Fimbristylis congesta +, Fimbristylis vincentii +, Isolepis vahlii +  and Scirpus apus +
Fimbristylis vahlii +
Fimbristylis +
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