Fimbristylis spathacea Roth

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Fimbristylis spathacea Roth

  • Description

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    Species Description - Culms tufted, stiff, erect, rather slender, 1-4 dm. high. Basal leaves flat, stiff, much shorter than the culm, 1.5-3 mm. wide, spreading or ascending, the apex bluntish and mucronate; involucral leaves mostly shorter than the compound small dense umbel; spikelets ellipsoid to short-cylindric, 3-6 mm. long, about 2 mm. thick; scales ovate, brownish, glabrous, emarginate, scarious-margined; style 2-cleft; achene about one-half as long as the scale, biconvex, obovate, brown, granular or subtuberculate.

  • Discussion

    Justice Joseph E. Adderley. at Eight Mile Rocks. Great Bahama, informed us at the time of our visit there in February, 1905, that soon after the hurricane of August 13, 1809, this sedge appeared in clearings, and had soon spread as a troublesome weed through cultivated lands, killing out pasture grasses in places ; it had therefore come to be called there " Hurricane Grass."

  • Distribution

    Coppices, waste and cultivated grounds. Great Bahama, Andros. Rum Cay, Fortune Island, Cay Sal : West Indies and tropical continental America ; Old World tropics.

    Andros Island Bahamas South America| West Indies|