Fuirena ciliaris

Fuirena ciliaris (L.) Roxb., Hort. Bengal. 81 1814. (Syn: Scirpus ciliaris L.);
 
Erect, tufted, non-rhizomatous annual herbs; culms 10-34 cm tall, slender, obtusely angular, 2-4-noded, pubescent. Leaves 2.5 - 9 x 0.3-0.6 cm, linear or linear-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acute, wholly pubescent, 3-5-nerved, basal leaves reduced to bladless sheaths; sheaths to 2.5 cm long; ligules 1-2 mm long, hairy. Inflorescence with 1 to 3 glomerulous clusters of spikelets; clusters 1-2 cm across, bearing 4-10 spikelets; bracts leaf-like. Spikelets 5-10 x 2.5 - 3.5 mm, ovate or oblong-elliptic, squarrose, pubescent. Glumes spiral, 1.5-2 x 1 mm, oblong-obovate, pubescent, 3-nerved; awn c. 1 mm long, recurved. Hypogynous bristles 3, scabrid. Hypogynous scales 3, c. 1 x 0.5 mm, longitudinally rectangular with 3-denticulate apex, base long-stipitate. Stamens 3. Stigmas 3, papillose. Nuts c. 1 x 0.5 mm, obovate to elliptic, triquetrous. 
Flowering and fruiting: January-March
Marshy areas in grasslands and paddy fields
Pantropical
 
 
Cyperaceae from STR 101209 – NSD 127 :  9 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (2)

This small grass is from Satpura tiger Reserve Hoshangabad

I think it is sp spe from Cyperaceae, photographed on 9-12-09

Experts pl id it

I have little knowledge in grasses but still trying is this Carex grayi?
Perhaps Fuirena ciliaris (= Scirpus), a sedge.
Yes I also think as Fuirena ciliaris (= Scirpus), a sedge as identified by ...
 
  
 

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