Fimbristylis puberula var. puberula
IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Fimbristylis drummondii (Torrey & Hooker) Boeckeler Fimbristylis multistriata Boeckeler Fimbristylis puberula var. drummondii (Michaux) Chapman Fimbristylis spadicea var. puberula Isolepis drummondii
Plants with culm bases thickened, contiguous; rhizomes of attached culm bases, knotty, stout, covered with dark fibers and chaff from old leaf-bases. Leaves: leaf-sheaths distally with at least some hairs; blades with margins distantly to closely scabrid, surfaces glabrous or densely hirtellous. Fertile scales totally or distally puberulent.
Phenology: Fruiting late spring–summer.
Habitat: Moist clays to sands or sandy peats, in prairies, savannas, glades, pinelands, acidic to basic sites
Elevation: 0–1000 m
Distribution
Ont., Ala., Ark., Del., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mich., Miss., Mo., Nebr., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Va.
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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reticulate-honeycombed +
lenticular-obovoid +
diffuse +
broad +
basifixed +
deciduous +
knotty +
swollen +
sulcate +
absent +
involute +
1;many +
2;3 +
dark +
scapose +
angular +
attached +
thickened +
stiff +
glabrous +
coarse +
flaccid +
fine +
basal +
abundant +
dark +
single +
bisexual +
Moist clays to sands or sandy peats, in prairies, savannas, glades, pinelands, acidic to basic sites +
transverse +
absent +
erect +
Present +
capitate +
pseudoumbel +
modified +
long +
ascending +
basal +
glabrous;pubescent +
absent +
vertical +
11;20 +
fused +
scabrid +
scarious +
broad +
excurrent +
exceeding +
falling +
absent +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
thin +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
fused +
distinct +
indistinct +
pistillate +
subtending +
Enum. Pl. +
1805 +
contorted +
knotty +
slender +
adventitious +
fibrous +
empty +
arranged +
puberulent +
8;100 +
fertile +
obtuse-angled;obtuse;ovate +
wand-like +
slender +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
open +
shorter +
cylindric +
single +
redbrown +
broadly ovoid;lance-cylindric +
distinct +
papillate +
undivided +
Fimbristylis puberula var. puberula +
Fimbristylis puberula +
variety +
free +
thin +
contiguous +
perennial +
5;100 +