View source for Fimbristylis tomentosa

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Fimbristylis tomentosa
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 290. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis diphylla var. pluristriata
|authority=C. B. Clarke
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis podocarpa
|authority=Nees
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fimbristylis;Fimbristylis tomentosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fimbristylis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fimbristylis tomentosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 123, 125
|treatment_page=page 124
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, cespitose, to 75 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Leaves</b> nearly distichous, ascending, 1/2–3/4 length of culms; sheath margins ciliolate, adaxial surface sparsely to copiously hirtellous distally; ligule present, complete; blades narrowly linear, 2–4(–5) mm wide, flat to shallowly involute, margins ciliate-scabrid, abaxial surface pilose-hirsute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: anthelae compound, ascending-branched, longer than broad; scapes distally oval or flattened, glabrous to pubescent; longest involucral bract exceeding anthela. <b>Spikelets</b> rusty brown, lanceoloid, 4–6 mm; fertile scales broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 2–3 mm, broadly acute, midrib excurrent as mucro or cusp. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 2; styles 2-fid, flat, fimbriate. <b>Achenes</b> pale to dark brown with pale umbo, lenticular-obpyriform, 1.7–2 mm, finely pitted, appearing nearly smooth, the pits in at least 20 narrow vertical rows per face. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands, silts or peats of low fields, clearings, waste areas, stream and pond banks, very weedy in ricelands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Fimbristylis tomentosa</i> apparently was introduced with early rice culture and is rapidly expanding its range.</p>
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name=Fimbristylis tomentosa
|author=
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fimbristylis diphylla var. pluristriata;Fimbristylis podocarpa
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands, silts or peats of low fields, clearings, waste areas, stream and pond banks, very weedy in ricelands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_190.xml
|genus=Fimbristylis
|species=Fimbristylis tomentosa
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