Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Perennial by short rootstocks, glabrous or pubescent; culms tufted, 1-6 dm. high, slender. Leaves 1-3 mm. wide, shorter than the culm; involucrebracts 3 or 4, shorter than or surpassing the simple or compound umbel; spikelets oblong or ovoid, 5-10 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. thick; scales ovate, acute, glabrous; style 2-cleft; aehenes scarcely 1 mm. long, obovoid, biconvex, white or yellowish, longitudinally ribbed, reticulated, the ribs smooth.
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Distribution
Moist soil. New Providence and Fortune Island : southern United States ;West Indies ; tropical continental America : Old World tropics. Slender Fimbristylis.
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies|