View source for Fimbristylis cymosa

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|accepted_name=Fimbristylis cymosa
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=228. 1810
|year=1810
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Fimbristylis obtusifolia
|authority=(Lamarck) Kunth
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1837
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis melanospora
|authority=Fernald
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis sintenisii
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis spathacea
|authority=Roth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus obtusifolius
|authority=Lamarck
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fimbristylis;Fimbristylis cymosa
|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 cymosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 127, 129
|treatment_page=page 128
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, (5–)10–60 cm, bases hard, glabrous; rhizomes absent. <b>Leaves</b> polystichous, mostly spreading-excurved, to 1/2 as long as culms; sheaths usually entire; ligule absent; blades linear, 2–3 mm wide, flat or shallowly involute, margin scabrid, apex blunt. <b>Inflorescences</b>: simple or compound anthelae with numerous small pedunculate clusters of sessile spikelets; scapes linear, distally terete, 1–2 mm thick; involucral bracts short, usually shorter than inflorescence. <b>Spikelets</b> greenish brown or yellow-brown, ovoid, 2–3 mm; fertile scales broadly ovate, 1–1.5 mm, obtuse or apically notched, midrib not excurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens usually 1; styles 2-fid, slender, glabrous. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown to nearly black, tumidly obovoid, rarely obscurely 3-ribbed, 1 mm, faintly striate to variously warty, faintly reticulate. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Sands of sea beaches, brackish sandy open sites, often disturbed, commonly just in from mangrove or on sandy road shoulders
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;Central America;South America;Africa;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>New World examples of <i>Fimbristylis cymosa</i> are almost exclusively bicarpellate, with bifid styles; Old World Oceania examples are tricarpellate, with trifid styles, a form not covered in this treatment.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Fimbristylis cymosa
|author=
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fimbristylis melanospora;Fimbristylis sintenisii;Fimbristylis spathacea;Scirpus obtusifolius
|basionyms=Fimbristylis obtusifolia
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Sands of sea beaches, brackish sandy open sites, often disturbed, commonly just in from mangrove or on sandy road shoulders
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;Central America;South America;Africa;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1810
|special status=
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|genus=Fimbristylis
|species=Fimbristylis cymosa
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