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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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Species
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FUIRENA UMBELLATA Rottb.
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Descr. & Icon. 70. P1. I9, f. 3. 1773; C. B. Clarke, Ill. Cyp. t. 59, f. 9. 1909.
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Description
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Plants with creeping rhizomes; culms 0.5-1.5 m. long, stout, sometimes pilose above, often bulbous- at the base; leaves 7-16 cm. long, 8-25 mm. wide, usually scabrous; spikelets oblong, 6-10 mm. long, clustered, the scales pubescent, aristate, with spreading or recurved awns; bristles ovate, membranous, not stipitate.
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Distribution
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An abundant species in damp places, in tropics of both hemispheres.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Maccaw Hills, Colon Island, alt. 0-120 m., von Wedel 545; Colon Island, Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2796; Changuinola Valley, Dunlap I69. COCLE: between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson, Allen d Seibert I7I6. CANAL ZONE: between Corozal and Ancon, Pittier 2I82; Frijoles, Killip I2I84; Darien Station, Standley 3I583; between France Field and Catival, Standley 30393; Fort Randolph, Standley 286I9. PANAMA: east of Pacora, 25 m., Woodson, Allen d Seibert 756; Chepo, Pittier 4550.
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