Antilles Hair Sedge

Bulbostylis antillana (Britton) Fernald, Rhodora 40 : 392. 1938.
Stenophylhis antillanus Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 447. 1916.
Densely tufted perennial; the filiform culms firm and flexuous, 1.5-4 dm. long, glabrous; leaves filiform, similar to the culms and one-half to two-thirds as long; sheaths light cinnamon-brown, flocculent at the apex; inflorescence umbellate, rather compact, the rays (sometimes compound) not exceeding 1.5 cm.; spikelets sessile, fascicled, oblong, 5-6 mm. long ; scales lanceolate, brown, keeled, acute ; achene trigonous, obovoid, 0.9 mm. long, brown, the surface covered with minute, almost echinate papillae ; tubercle small, brown, short-conic.
Type locality: Grand Savanna, Dominica (F. E. Lloyd 822). Distribution : Dry sandy savannas locally in Martinique and Dominica.