Code
FIMLI
Growth form
Sedge
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Marshland
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Fimbristylis emarginata Wight ex Wall. [Invalid] |
| synonym | Fimbristylis flaccida Steud. |
| synonym | Fimbristylis flaccidula Zoll. [Invalid] |
| synonym | Fimbristylis hatsusimae Ohwi |
| synonym | Fimbristylis littoralis var. littoralis |
| synonym | Fimbristylis quadrangularis A.Dietr. ex Steud. |
| synonym | Fimbristylis tetragona A.Dietr. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Fimbristylis littoralis is an annual cyperaceae, tufted, erect, more or less bushy. The stems are slender, erect, quadrangular cross section, glabrous, reaching a height of 15-60 cm. The leaves are slightly soft, sheathed and more or less bent. They are arranged in a distichous fan, are more developed at the base. The terminal leaves are small and short. The inflorescence is a compound umbel very stuffed, underpinned by small filiform bracts, with more or less spread floral axis, 2 to 8 cm, bearing solitary subglobose spikelets 1.5 mm in diameter.
First leaves
The first leaves are small, linear, 4 to 6 cm long and 1 to 2 mm wide, distichous, arranged in a fan.
General habit
Plant erect more or less bushy, with distichous radical leaves, up to 60 cm high.
Underground system
The roots are densely fibrous.
Stem
The aerial stem corresponds to the axis of inflorescence, slender, solid, quadrangular cross section with very marked acute angles, glabrous, 10 to 50 cm high.
Leaf
The leaves are distichous, glabrous, laterally compressed, more developed at the base, 1 to 5 mm in width can exceed by 40 cm in length. The terminal leaves are reduced. The faces are glabrous, the margin smooth to finely scabrous.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a compound umbel very stuffed at several branching levels, underpinned by 3-5 filiform bracts, 1 to 3 cm long. The floral axis are more or less spread out, up to 10 cm long.
Spikelet
The subglobose spikelets of 1.5 mm in diameter, are solitary, arranged at the end. They are composed of many flowers with broadly oval broad, subacute, not mucronate, about 1 mm long, reddish, arranged spirally. One stamen, trifid style
Fruit
The fruit is an alkene narrowly obovoid and trigonous with pointed base, dorsally compressed, 0.5 mm long, longitudinally and transversely striated, tubercular, yellowish colour.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
French Guiana: In rice fields, Fimbristylis littoralis emerge at the first dry spells, reaches 10 cm around 37 DAS and initiates its flowering around 55 DAS where it can reach 50 to 70 cm.
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Reproduction
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Fimbristylis littoralis is an annual species that multiplies only by seed. Sometimes it can behave as a perennial.
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Morphology
Growth form
Tuft plant with narrow leaves
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Grass or grass-like
Grass-like leaf type
Sedge leaf
Type of prefoliation
Folded lead
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Square
Root type
Fibrous roots
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
Cyperaceae leaf
with united sheathing lobes
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene trigonous
Lamina base
sheathing the triangular stems
Lamina margin
scabrous
entire
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Glabrous
Simple leaf type
Lamina linear
Lamina section
succulent
Lamina Veination
Parallel
Non visible
Flower color
Red flowers
Brown
Inflorescence type
Umbel
Stem pilosity
Glabrous
Life form
Sedge leaf
Ecology
A weed of open slopes, muddy places near water, grasslands, paddy fields, paddy field margins.
Comoros: Fimbristylis littoralis is absent.
French Guiana: A species that thrives abundantly in wet shallows and regularly flooded environments.
Madagascar: F. littoralis is a very common aquatic cyperaceae in Madagascar, present in lowland rice fields or humid areas or slighty flooded areas.
Mauritius: The species is very rare or absent on the island
Reunion: Species of humid lowlands.
Seychelles: absent.
Comoros: Fimbristylis littoralis is absent.
French Guiana: A species that thrives abundantly in wet shallows and regularly flooded environments.
Madagascar: F. littoralis is a very common aquatic cyperaceae in Madagascar, present in lowland rice fields or humid areas or slighty flooded areas.
Mauritius: The species is very rare or absent on the island
Reunion: Species of humid lowlands.
Seychelles: absent.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Marshland
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
Mauritius
Worldwide distribution
Frimbristylis littoralis is widespread in tropical regions.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Benin: rare but abundant when present.
Burkina Faso: frequent and generally abundant.
Comoros: Fimbristylis littoralis is absent.
Ivory Coast: common and scarce.
Ghana: frequent and generally abundant.
French Guiana: Very common plant on the Mana rice polder, both along the canals and inside the plots, where it can have a strong overlap. It is a rare species but locally abundant on the edges of vegetable plots along the drainage channels, close to stagnant water.
Kenya: rare and scarce.
Mali: rare but abundant when present.
Madagascar: F. littoralis is the main weed in irrigated rice fields. It is common and abundant in rice fields at low and medium altitude where irrigation is insufficient at the start of the growing season, particularly on alluvial soils or clay more or more or less peaty fertile enough soils.
Mauritius: This species is not present in crops.
Nigeria: frequent and generally abundant.
Reunion: This species is not present in crops.
Senegal: rare and scarce.
Seychelles: absent.
Tanzania: frequent and generally abundant.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Holm L.G., Plucknett D.L., Pancho J.V., Herberger J.P. (1977. The world's worst weeds: distribution and biology. Honolulu, Hawaii (USA): University of Hawaii Press. 609 p
- I. O. Akobundu, C.W. Agyakwa (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria 22p;
- Johnson, D.E., 1997. Weeds of rice in West Africa. WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké. 97p;
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Berton, A. (2020). Flore spontanée des cultures maraichères et fruitières de Guyane. Guide de reconnaissance des 140 adventices les plus communes des parcelles cultivées. Cayenne, Guyane, FREDON Guyane: 186.https://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/173
- Marnotte, P. and A. Carrara. (2007). "Plantes des rizières de Guyane." from http://plantes-rizieres-guyane.cirad.fr/.
- Le Bourgeois, T., Carrara, A., Dodet, M., Dogley, W., Gaungoo, A., Grard, P., Ibrahim, Y., Jeuffrault, E., Lebreton, G., Poilecot, P., Prosperi, J., Randriamampianina, J.A., Andrianaivo, A.P., Théveny, F. 2008. Advent-OI : Principales adventices des îles du sud-ouest de l'Océan Indien.V.1.0. In Cirad [ed.]. Cirad, Montpellier, France. Cdrom.
Information Listing > References
- Holm L.G., Plucknett D.L., Pancho J.V., Herberger J.P. (1977. The world's worst weeds: distribution and biology. Honolulu, Hawaii (USA): University of Hawaii Press. 609 p
- I. O. Akobundu, C.W. Agyakwa (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria 22p;
- Johnson, D.E., 1997. Weeds of rice in West Africa. WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké. 97p;
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Berton, A. (2020). Flore spontanée des cultures maraichères et fruitières de Guyane. Guide de reconnaissance des 140 adventices les plus communes des parcelles cultivées. Cayenne, Guyane, FREDON Guyane: 186.https://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/173
- Marnotte, P. and A. Carrara. (2007). "Plantes des rizières de Guyane." from http://plantes-rizieres-guyane.cirad.fr/.
- Le Bourgeois, T., Carrara, A., Dodet, M., Dogley, W., Gaungoo, A., Grard, P., Ibrahim, Y., Jeuffrault, E., Lebreton, G., Poilecot, P., Prosperi, J., Randriamampianina, J.A., Andrianaivo, A.P., Théveny, F. 2008. Advent-OI : Principales adventices des îles du sud-ouest de l'Océan Indien.V.1.0. In Cirad [ed.]. Cirad, Montpellier, France. Cdrom.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Cyperaceae |
| Genus | Fimbristylis |
| Species | Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudich. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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