绒毛飘拂草 rong mao piao fu cao

Fimbristylis podocarpa Nees in Wight, Contr. Bot. India, 98. 1834; F. dichotomoides Tang & F. T. Wang; F. diphylla var. podocarpa (Nees) Kükenthal.

Culms 5-100 cm tall, often densely pubescent. Leaves shorter than culm; leaf blade narrowly linear, 0.5-2 mm wide, both surfaces often pilose. Spikelets (0.8-)0.9-1.4 cm. Fertile glumes 3.8-4.2 mm. Nutlet obovoid, globose, or ± obdeltoid, 1.2-1.3 mm, cancellate with 15-24 vertical rows of transversely oblong-rectangular epidermal cells, apex obtuse to subtruncate. Fl. and fr. Jul. 2n = 30.

Farmlands, shallow water, open wastelands, grasslands on slopes; 100-2100 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; tropical Africa and Australia, Pacific islands].