Fimbristylis castanea (Michx.) Vahl
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Densely cespitose perennial to 1.5(–2) m; stems terete to elliptic in section; lvs slender, narrowly linear, rarely as much as 2 or 3 mm wide, involute or often semicircular in section; ligule wanting or incomplete; longest invol bract up to as long as the infl, seldom more; spikelets 5–10+ mm, mostly ovoid or lance-ovoid, in a dense to open compound system of subumbellate cymes; scales broadly ovate, smooth, rounded above; stamens 2 or 3; anthers ca 2 mm; style bifid, fimbriate from the base to the branch-point; achene lenticular, obovate, 1.5–2 mm, finely and densely cellular-reticulate; 2n=20, 40. Brackish coastal marshes, seldom in alkaline sites inland; coastal plain from L.I. to Fla., Tex., Mex., and W.I.