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Fimbristylis spadicea (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 294. 1805
Scirpiis spadiceus L. Sp. PI. 51. 1753.
Scirpiis caroUnianus Lam. Tab. Encyc. 1 : 142. 1791. (Carolina.)
Scirpiis castaneiis Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1: 31. 1803. (Florida.)
Scirpus piihenihis Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1: 31. 1803. (Carolina.)
Scirpus fimbriatus Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 6 : 778. 1804.
Fimbristylis puberulum Vahl, Enum. 2 : 289. 1805.
Fimbristylis castaneum Vahl, Enum. 2 : 292. 1805.
Fimbristylis cylindricitm Vahl, Enum. 2: 293. 1805. (North America.)
Scirpus domingensis Pers. Syn. PI. 1 : 67. 1805. (Santo Domingo.)
Scirpus pubescens Pers. Syn. PI. 1 : 68. 1805.
Fimbristylis speciosa Rohde ; Spreng. Pug. 1: 5. 1813. (San Domingo.)
Isolepis Dnimmondii Torr. & Hook.; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 350. 1836. (Texas.)
Fimbristylis Riehleana Steud. Syn. Cyp. 114. 1855, fide Bock. (North America.)
Fimbristylis pentastachya Bock. Flora 40: 36. 1857. (Vera Cruz, Mexico.)
Fimbristylis Dnimmondii Bock. Flora 41 : 603. 1858. (New Orleans, Drummond 416.)
Fimbristylis anomala Bock. Flora 43 : 242. 1860. (Texas, Drummond 445.)
Fimbristylis multistriata Bock. Flora 43 : 243. 1860. (Rio Brazos, Texas, Drummond.)
Fimbristylis spadicea var. puberula Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 522. 1860.
Fimbristylis spadicea var. castanea A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 566. 1867.
Fimbristylis thermalis S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 360. 1871. (Nevada.)
Fimbristylis interior Britton in Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2. 1 : 320. 1913. (Colorado.)
Fimbristylis inaguensis Britton, Torreya 13 : 216. 1913. (Bahama Islands.)
Fimbristylis spadicea f. domingensis Kiikenth. Repert. Sp. Nov. 23 : 196. 1926.
Fimbristylis Harperi Britton; Small, Fl. Miami 29. 1913. (Tybee Island, Georgia.)
Fimbristylis puberula f. pycnostachya Fernald, Rhodora 37 : 396. 1933. (Virginia.)
Fimbristylis puberula f. eucycla Fernald, Rhodora 37 : 396. 1933. (Virginia.)
Perennial, often with elongated stolons ; culms 0.3-1 m. high, often wiry, with pale brown to black sheaths ; leaves usually elongate, half as long as the culm or longer, involute to flattened, filiform to 3 mm. wide; rays of the umbel unequal, simple or forked, 1-12 cm. long; spikelets ovoid to long-cylindric, 5-15 mm. long; scales ovate, apiculate, brown to nearly black, most frequently dark lucid brown with paler veins imbedded in the tissue, glabrous to puberulent; achenes pale gray to black, obovate to pyriform, 1.5-1.8 mm. long, plano-convex to lenticular, slightly apiculate at the apex, often narrowed at the base to a minute purplish annulus, the surface marked by horizontal deeply-pitted quadrangular cells ; style bifid, flat, densely fimbriate above, the branches long (1.5-2 mm.) ; stamens 2 or 3, the anthers dark brown, subulate, 1.5-2 mm. long.
Type locality : "In Jamaicae fluviis."
Distribution: Salt marshes along the coast: New York to Florida and Texas; in the interior northward to Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, and the hot springs of California and Nevada ; tropical America.

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bibliographic citation: Henry Knut Svenson. 1957. (POALES); (CYPERACEAE); SCIRPEAE (CONTINUATIO). North American flora. vol 18(9). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY

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Fimbristylis castanea

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Fimbristylis castanea, commonly known as marsh fimbry or saltmarsh fimbristylis, is a perennial sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to the United States of America.

Description

Fimbristylis castanea commonly grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in height, forming thick clumps.^[1] Its narrow leaves grow from the base of the plant. They are dark brown and sturdy at the base and grow from one half to two thirds of the plant's height in length.^[2] The small flowers of the sedge are hidden behind dark, glossy, brown scales that form budlike spikelets.^[3]

Distribution and habitat

It is found in the south eastern states from Texas extending east and north around the coast as far as New York.^[4]^[5]

It commonly grows in salt marshes coastal dunes, and brackish marsh inland, especially near wharves.^[2]

References

^ Roy L. Lehman (2013). Marine Plants of the Texas Coast (illustrated ed.). Texas A&M University Press. p. 45. ISBN 9781623490164.
^ ^a ^b Flora of North America Editorial Committee, ed. (2003). Flora of North America: Volume 23: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in Part): Cyperaceae (illustrated, reprint ed.). OUP USA. p. 149. ISBN 9780195152074.
^ Ralph W. Tiner (2009). Field Guide to Tidal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States and Neighboring Canada: Vegetation of Beaches, Tidal Flats, Rocky Shores, Marshes, Swamps, and Coastal Ponds (illustrated, revised ed.). Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 218. ISBN 9781558496675.
^ "Fimbristylis castanea (Michx.) Vahl marsh fimbry". United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
^ Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British Possessions from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian; Volume 1 of An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian, Addison Brown. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 320.

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Fimbristylis castanea: Brief Summary

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Fimbristylis castanea, commonly known as marsh fimbry or saltmarsh fimbristylis, is a perennial sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to the United States of America.

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