Diagnostic ¹

"Erect, tufted herbs; rhizome short, erect, not stoloniferous; culms 4-10 cm tall, slender, trigonous. Leaves few, 1-2 mm wide, linear, apex acuminate; sheaths 1-1.5 cm long, light brown. Inflorescence a head with 1-3 sessile, white spikes, central spike 5-8 mm long, ovoid-globose; bracts 3 or 4, linear, much exceeding the inflorescence. Spikelets 1.5-2 x 0.5 mm, oblong, 1-flowered. Glumes 4, distichous, ovate-oblong, acute, plicate on a smooth keel, basal 2 glumes smaller, empty, c. 0.5 mm long. Stamens 2. Stigmas 2. Nuts c. 1 x 0.5 mm, oblong, apiculate, brownish."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26332408

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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