Fimbristylis inaguensis Britton
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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
Species Description - Perennial by short stout rootstoeks; culms rather stout, stiff, smooth, compressed, 3-5 dm. tall. Basal leaves one-third to two-thirds as long as the culm, flat, rather stiff, smooth, 1-2.5 mm. wide, obtuse; leaves of the involucre 2-4, the longer one usually a little exceeding the inflorescence; umbel compound, 5-7 cm. broad, the rays 2-4 cm. long, ascending, the raylets slender, 0.5-2 cm. long; spikelets narrowly oblong, 8-12 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. thick, acute, many-flowered, solitary at the ends of the rays and raylets; scales brown, glabrous, dull, ovate, carinate, mucronate or the lower short-awned; achene elliptic or obovate-elliptic, flat, blunt, finely reticulated, nearly 1.5 mm. long; style-branches 2.
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Distribution
White-lands and rocky soil. Cat Island, Little San Salvador. Watling's Island, Fortune Island, Crooked Island, Exuma Chain, Little Ambergris Cay, Inagua : Cuban Cays ; Anegada. West Indian Fimbristylis.
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