Code
FUIUM
Growth form
Sedge
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Marshland
FUIUM
Growth form
Sedge
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Marshland
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Fuirena appendiculata Peter |
| synonym | Fuirena brachylepis Peter |
| synonym | Fuirena brasiliensis Palla [Illegitimate] |
| synonym | Fuirena brasiliensis Palla, nom. illeg. |
| synonym | Fuirena brasiliensis Raddi |
| synonym | Fuirena canescens Vahl |
| synonym | Fuirena capitata Willd. ex Kunth |
| synonym | Fuirena complotricha C.Wright |
| synonym | Fuirena guianensis Klotzsch |
| synonym | Fuirena haemaglottis Steud. |
| synonym | Fuirena hildebrandtii Boeckeler |
| synonym | Fuirena mahouxii Cherm. |
| synonym | Fuirena mauritiana Nees ex Kunth |
| synonym | Fuirena mauritiana var. angustifolia Kunth |
| synonym | Fuirena multiflora Peter |
| synonym | Fuirena paniculata L.f. |
| synonym | Fuirena pentagona Schumach. |
| synonym | Fuirena pentagona Wight & Arn. ex Nees [Illegitimate] |
| synonym | Fuirena pentagona Wight & Arn. ex Nees, nom. illeg. |
| synonym | Fuirena philippinensis Gand. |
| synonym | Fuirena quinguangularis Hassk. |
| synonym | Fuirena rivularis Nees [Invalid] |
| synonym | Fuirena rivularis Nees, nom. inval. |
| synonym | Fuirena seriata C.B.Clarke |
| synonym | Fuirena tereticulmis J.Presl & C.Presl |
| synonym | Fuirena thouarsiana Kunth |
| synonym | Fuirena umbellata var. americana H.Pfeiff. |
| synonym | Fuirena umbellata var. pilosa Domin |
| synonym | Fuirena umbellata var. typica Domin, nom. inval. |
| synonym | Fuirena umbellata var. unguiculata Kük. |
| synonym | Scirpus fuirena T.Koyama |
| synonym | Scirpus rivularis D.Don. ex Nees [Invalid] |
| synonym | Scirpus rivularis D.Don. ex Nees, nom. inval. |
| synonym | Scirpus umbellatus (Rottb.) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
| Malagasy |
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| Malgache |
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Fuirena umbellata is a vivacious erect plant, measuring 0.5 to 1.5 m high. It is a plant with short rhizomes and sturdy stems that are pentagonal in section. The leaves are short, wide and rigid, with prominent veins. Inflorescences are arranged upwardly on the stem of a height of up to 30 cm. The oblong oval spikelets are grouped in heads. The fruit is an achene of ellipsoidal to obovoid shape, of triquetra section.
General habit
Robust vivacious erect plant. It reaches 1, 50 m high.
Underground system
The underground system consists of short large rhizomes that emit fibrous roots. The roots also emerge from the lower nodes.
Culm
The culms and leaf sheaths have 4 to 5 distinct thickened angles. The culm measure 50 cm to 1.50 m high and 6 to 9 mm in diameter at the base. The sheaths are shorter than the inter-node. The lowest inter-node of flowering culms are often swollen.
Leaf
The leaves have 5 prominent veins. They are obovate lanceolate. At the base of the blade is a membranous ciliated ligule. The lamina measure up to 7 cm long and 11 mm wide. They are rigid, much shorter than the stems, those of the base being very short.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is elongated. It reaches 30 cm long. It consists of a terminal part and of axillary staggered portions. These inflorescences are under the axil of a leaf bract that are of the same size or that exceed them. The spikelets are grouped in dense bundles.
Spikelet
Spikelets are ovoid oblong, more or less rough to the touch. They are 4 to 12 mm long and 2.5 to 3 mm in diameter. They are brown to green. The glumes are oval to obovate, with rounded apex, pubescent and provided with a curved edge. The flower is surrounded by three scales of the size of the ovary. It consists of three stamens and an ovary surmounted by a trifid style.
Fruit
The fruit is an achene of ellipsoidal to obovoid shape, of triquetra section, with base narrowed into peduncle and apex in beak shape. It measures 1 to 1.25 mm long and 0.6 to 0.7 mm in diameter. Bristles are usually absent, rarely present and in this case shorter than the achene.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
No Data
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
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Madagascar: Fuirena umbellata flowers as from February.
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Reproduction
Fuirena umbellata is a vivacious plant that reproduces by seeds and by fragments of rhizomes, transported by water.
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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
Pentagonal
Root type
Rhizome tuberised
Fibrous roots
Ligule type
Ligule membranous and long ciliaite
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
Cyperaceae leaf
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene trigonous
Lamina base
sheathing the triangular stems
Lamina margin
scabrous
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Glabrous
Lamina section
folded
Lamina Veination
Parallel
Flower color
Brown
Green
Inflorescence type
Panicle
Condensed spike
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Geophytic plant
Sedge leaf
Look Alikes
At Madagascar, Fuirena umbellata bears the same name as F. ciliaris "Vendranamalona" and can be easily confused with this species. It is a sedge of marshy areas distinguished by its larger size, its relatively robust pentagon stem with sub winged and its inflorescence more developed with partial quite numerous and distant inflorescences. It is a weed of rice fields that less widespread than F. ciliaris. It is found mainly in the plain of Lake Alaotra and in lowlands of rice fields of eastern slope, often with more or less peaty soil, where it is a fairly common species with low to average abundance.
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Ecology
Fuirena umbellata occurs in lowland rice fields, drains, wetlands and the banks of rivers.
Madagascar: The species grows on hydromorphic soils more or less peaty, and relatively fertile, in marshes, ponds and along streams, humid places. It is a weed of irrigated and flooded rice fields in semi-intensive crop systems on the East Coast and the Middle East up to 900 m of altitude.
Madagascar: The species grows on hydromorphic soils more or less peaty, and relatively fertile, in marshes, ponds and along streams, humid places. It is a weed of irrigated and flooded rice fields in semi-intensive crop systems on the East Coast and the Middle East up to 900 m of altitude.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Marshland
Description
Worldwide distribution
Fuirena umbellata is a pantropical species.
It is present in tropical America and the Caribbean, USA, tropical and southern Africa, South-west islands of the Indian Ocean, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
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Worldwide distribution
Fuirena umbellata is a pantropical species.
It is present in tropical America and the Caribbean, USA, tropical and southern Africa, South-west islands of the Indian Ocean, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Burkina Faso: rare and scarce.
Ivory Coast: common and scarce.
Madagascar: F. umbellata is a relatively rare species, but locally abundant in rice fields with peaty soil and drainage problem. It is relatively common and abundant in low lands and rice plains of the East Coast.
Mali: rare and scarce.
Senegal: rare and scarce.
Local harmfulness
Benin: Fuirena umbellata is rare and scarce in paddy fields.Burkina Faso: rare and scarce.
Ivory Coast: common and scarce.
Madagascar: F. umbellata is a relatively rare species, but locally abundant in rice fields with peaty soil and drainage problem. It is relatively common and abundant in low lands and rice plains of the East Coast.
Mali: rare and scarce.
Senegal: rare and scarce.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
Local control
Madagascar: This species is controlled in lowland rice cultivation, or in irrigated or flooded rice fields by either 2,4-D or by a manual weeding.
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Global control
Tips for weeding vivacious sedges irrigated rice and lowland in Africa, consult:
Local control
Madagascar: This species is controlled in lowland rice cultivation, or in irrigated or flooded rice fields by either 2,4-D or by a manual weeding.
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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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
- I. O. Akobundu, C.W. Agyakwa (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria 28p; Johnson, D.E., 1997. Weeds of rice in West Africa. WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké. 100p;
- 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.
- Heines, R.W. & Lye, K. A. 1983.The sedges and rushes of East Africa. A flora of the families Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in East Africa - with a particular reference to Uganda. East African Natural History, Nairobi. 49p.
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1972. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Pancho, J.V., Obien, S.R. 1995. Manual of Ricefield Weeds in the Philippines. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
- MOODY K. 1989 – Weeds reported in Rice in South and Southeast Asia IRRI Los Banos Philippines 442 pages.
- CHERMEZON H., 1937 –Flore de Madagascar (Plantes vasculaires) 29è Famille CYPERACEES MNHN p. 162-163.
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
- I. O. Akobundu, C.W. Agyakwa (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria 28p; Johnson, D.E., 1997. Weeds of rice in West Africa. WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké. 100p;
- 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.
- Heines, R.W. & Lye, K. A. 1983.The sedges and rushes of East Africa. A flora of the families Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in East Africa - with a particular reference to Uganda. East African Natural History, Nairobi. 49p.
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1972. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Pancho, J.V., Obien, S.R. 1995. Manual of Ricefield Weeds in the Philippines. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
- MOODY K. 1989 – Weeds reported in Rice in South and Southeast Asia IRRI Los Banos Philippines 442 pages.
- CHERMEZON H., 1937 –Flore de Madagascar (Plantes vasculaires) 29è Famille CYPERACEES MNHN p. 162-163.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Cyperaceae |
| Genus | Fuirena |
| Species | Fuirena umbellata Rottb. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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