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Combination made by Handel-Mazzetti in Karsten & Schenk, l.c., is included in an introductory vegetation description on unnumbered pages.
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Description
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Annual, (4-)10-20(-35) cm, forming small tufts. Roots fibrous. Stem 0.25-0.5 mm diam., 4-6-angled, deeply grooved, papillose between veins, smooth, grey-green. Leaves c. half of stem length, resembling stems; sheaths 5-20 mm, yellowish, grey or light brown, glabrous, soft, mouth oblique, margin fringed with hairs to 3-20 mm long; ligule 0; blades c. 0.25-0.5 mm wide, capillary, channelled, with 3 strong nerves, slightly keeled, grey-green, margin scabrous, apex long attenuate, acute. Inflorescence multiple spike or small anthelodium of (2-)3-5(-10) spikes, to 10-20(-30) x 0.5-25(-55) mm, with 1-3 branches, each mostly with a single spike, in large inflorescences occasionally secondary branches; bracts inconspicuous, lowest to 5 mm, mostly blade-less or with a narrow blade to 3 mm. Spikes 2-3.5(-8) x 1-1.5(-2.5) mm, ovoid to fusiform, brown, with 6-10(-12) glumes; glume-like bracts to 2.5 mm, incl. to 0.5 mm mucro; glumes c. 1.5-2 mm, widely cymbiform, acute, conspicuous mid-nerve and two side nerves extending to a c. 0.5 mm mucro, sides wide, nerve-less, brown, glossy, margins smooth or finely fringed. Perianth bristles 0; stamens 2, anther 0.4 mm; stigmas 3. Nut 0.9 x 0.5-0.7 mm, widely obovate, trigonous, abruptly contracted, apiculate, stipitate, sides finely reticulate, a papilla in each areole, often in transversal rows.
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Distribution
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Africa, Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), India, China, Japan.
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Distribution
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Distribution: From Kashmir to Sri Lanka, China, Japan, south to Australia; also in tropical Africa.
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Habitat
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Moist hill sides, in gravel; also as weed.
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Synonym
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Scirpus densus Wall. ex Roxb., Fl. Ind. 231. 1820. Isolepis densa (Wall. ex Roxb.) Nees in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 109. 1834. B. capillaris auct., non L., var. trifida Kunth sensu C.B. Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 6: 652. 1893.
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Derivation of specific name
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densa: dense
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=111280
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Bulbostylis densa: Brief Summary
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Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz. est une espèce de plantes tropicales du genre Bulbostylis de la famille des Cyperaceae, présente en Asie et en Afrique.
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Bulbostylis densa: Brief Summary
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Bulbostylis densa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cói. Loài này được (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1930.
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丝叶球柱草
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丝叶球柱草: Brief Summary
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Chinese
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丝叶球柱草(学名:Bulbostylis densa),为莎草科球柱草属下的一个植物种。