三穗飘拂草 san sui piao fu cao

Perennials. Rhizomes short. Culms densely tufted, 20-90 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm wide, flatly 3-angled, smooth, striate, with few leaves at base. Leaves shorter than culm; leaf blade 1.5-2 mm wide, stiff, involute, margin apically ciliate. Involucral bract 1, leaflike, much shorter than inflorescence, erect, margin ciliate. Inflorescence a simple anthela, with 3-6 spikelets. Spikelets ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 8-22 × 4-6 mm, terete, many flowered. Glumes spirally imbricate, brown with short rust-colored lines, ovate to broadly ovate, 5-6 × 4-4.5 mm, subleathery, with many veins, abaxial midvein slightly keeled, apex obtuse and mucronate. Stamens 3; anthers linear, 2-2.5 mm. Style ca. 3.5 mm, compressed, ciliate, basally slightly inflated; stigmas 2. Nutlet yellowish brown, stipitate, obovoid, ca. 2 mm, flatly biconvex, slightly shiny and with hexagonal reticulation. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct.

Slopes, valleys, streamsides, fields, salt marine marshes. Guangdong, Hainan [Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; NE Australia, Pacific islands].