View source for Fimbristylis squarrosa

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|accepted_name=Fimbristylis squarrosa
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 289. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis comata
|authority=Nees
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis hirta
|authority=(Kunth) Roemer & Schultes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Isolepis hirta
|authority=Kunth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pocronostylis squarrosus
|authority=(Vahl) Bertoloni
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fimbristylis;Fimbristylis squarrosa
|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 squarrosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 122, 128
|treatment_page=page 127
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, cespitose, delicate, to 30(–40) cm, bases soft; rhizomes absent. <b>Leaves</b> polystichous, spreading to ascending, to 1/2 length of culms or longer; sheaths entire or ciliate distally, backs hirtellous; ligule absent; blades linear-filiform, 0.5 mm wide, flat or involute, scabridciliate, often abaxially hirtellous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: anthelae simple or compound, mostly open, ascending-branched, mostly longer than broad; scapes filiform, 0.5 mm wide, distally compressed, mostly glabrous; longer involucral bracts leafy, equaling or exceeded by anthela. <b>Spikelets</b> greenish brown or brownish, lanceoloid or narrowly ellipsoid-cylindric, 4–5 mm; fertile scales ovate, acute, glabrous, midrib excurrent as slender, excurved cusp. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 1; styles 2-fid, slender, base flat, long-fimbriate, hairs recurved over achene summit. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, lenticular, obovoid, 0.9 mm, smooth or very finely reticulate.</span><!--

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|habitat=Moist sands or silts, low clearings, fields
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=N.J.;West Indies (Cuba);Central America (Honduras);South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p><i>Fimbristylis squarrosa</i> is an Old World temperate to tropical weed, mostly of Asia and Africa.</p><!--
--><p>While <i>Fimbristylis squarrosa</i> has been collected only once in North America from ballast at Camden, New Jersey (C. F. Parker, in 1865), the weedy and often ruderal nature of the species makes it a likely future adventive.</p>
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name=Fimbristylis squarrosa
|author=
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fimbristylis comata;Fimbristylis hirta;Isolepis hirta;Pocronostylis squarrosus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|habitat=Moist sands or silts, low clearings, fields
|elevation=low to high elevations
|distribution=N.J.;West Indies (Cuba);Central America (Honduras);South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands.
|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_196.xml
|genus=Fimbristylis
|species=Fimbristylis squarrosa
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