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Bulbostylis barbata
(Rottb.) C.B. Clarke, Cyperaceae
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Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Other Latin names:  Scirpus barbatus Rottb.

Common name(s): [more details]

Chinese: qiu zhu cao

English: hair sedge

French: bulbostylis barbu

Habit:  sedge

Description:  "Densely tufted annual without rhizome.  Culms slender, erect, 5-30 cm tall, 0.25-0.4 mm thick, leaved at base.  Leaf blades capillary to filiform, 4-10 cm long, 0.25-0.5 mm wide, acute at apex, glabrous or at times sparsely pilose on lower surface toward apex; sheaths 5-20 mm long, membranous, brownish, glabrous, the white-hyaline orifice with scattered long white hairs.  Inflorescence terminal head of 2 to 20 sessile spikelets, 5-15 mm across, eventually brownish.  Bracts 1 to 3, spreading, 1-2.5 cm long, setaceous with dilated base, glabrous or with scattered hairs on lower surface.  Spikelets sessile, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-8 mm long, 1-1.75 mm wide, angular, suddenly subacute at apex, subdensely 7- to 15-flowered, pale-brownish.  Glumes ovate, 1.5-2.25 mm long with recurved short awn, 1.25-1.5 mm wide, membranous, yellowish-green and eventually becoming rusty-brown, prominently keeled, ciliolate, occasionally puberulent on upper part. Achenes obovate-orbicular, trigonous, 0.6-0.75 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, pale, smoothish, obscurely finely reticulate with isodiametrical cells, rounded to apex; style-base depressed-globular; style filiform, 0.75-1 mm long; stigmas 3, shorter than the style.  Stamen 1; anther 0.25-3 mm long" (Dassanayake, 1983; p. 327).

Habitat/ecology:  In Sri Lanka, "in open dry or semidry sandy places, frequent on dune sands and sandy grounds near the sea shore, also in inland savannah and on rock outcrops, 0-1000 m altitude" (Dassanayake, 1983; p. 327).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Africa, India to southeast Asia and Malesia, China, Japan, Australia, southern US, Guatemala, Martinique and Venezuela (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
Japan (offshore islands)
Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands
Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands   Kato, Hidetoshi (2007)
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (eastern New Guinea Island)
Papua New Guinea (eastern New Guinea Island) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Philippine Islands native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Philippine Islands   Merrill, Elmer D. (1925) (pp. 127-128)
In open dry sandy places at low and medium altitudes, locally abundant, ascending to 1,500 m.
Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
Australia
Australia (continental)
Australia (continental) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Central America
Central America (Pacific rim)
Guatemala (Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
China
China
China (People's Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia (Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Japan
Japan
Japan native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
Ryukyu Islands native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
North Korea
North Korea
North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
South Korea
South Korea
South Korea (Republic of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia (country of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore (Republic of)   Waterhouse, D. F. (1993) (p. 63)
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore (Republic of) native
Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. (2009) (p. 21)
Common
Taiwan
Taiwan Island
Taiwan Island native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Thailand
Thailand
Thailand (Kingdom of) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)   Waterhouse, D. F. (1993) (p. 63)
Indian Ocean
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
Mauritius
Mautitius Islands (Mauritius and Rodrigues)
Mauritius Island native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Also reported from
Country/Terr./St. &
Island group
Location Cited status &
Cited as invasive &
Cited as cultivated &
Cited as aboriginal introduction?
Reference &
Comments
United States (continental except west coast)
United States (other states)
United States (other states) native
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)

Comments:  Reported to be an invasive species in southeast Asia per Barbara Waterhouse, pers. com.

Control:  If you know of control methods for Bulbostylis barbata, please let us know.


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