Cyperaceae FAMILY

Fimbristylis dichotoma

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Fimbristylis dichotoma is an annual or short-lived perennial grass-like plant with very short rhizomes. The tufted stems are 10 - 75cm tall (sometimes to 100cm), the plant often forming large tussocks[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a source of materials. It is sometimes also used as a green manure and soil stabilizer.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWidespread through most of the tropics and the subtropics.

HabitatGrassy waysides, cultivated ground, margins of rice fields, also in plantations, swamps and savannahs[ 991 Title Cyperaceae of Economic, Ethnobotanical and Horticultural Importance: A Checklist Publication Kew Bulletin Vol. 56 No. 2, pp 257 - 360 Author Simpson D.A.; Inglis C.A. Publisher The Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew, London Year 2001 ISBN 1-84246-038-2 Description An excellent and very comprehensive checklist, giving the range, habitat and uses of over 500 species. ]. A common weed of open locations, roadsides, tea and teak plantations, and dry rice fields, up to 1,500 metres, occasionally to 2,500 metres[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].