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|accepted_name=Fimbristylis miliacea
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 287. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scirpus miliaceus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication_place=10, 868. 1759
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis littoralis
|authority=Gaudichaud
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Isolepis miliacea
|authority=(Linnaeus) J. Presl & C. Presl
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus bengalensis
|authority=Persoon
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Trichelostylis miliacea
|authority=(Linnaeus) Nees
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fimbristylis;Fimbristylis miliacea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fimbristylis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fimbristylis miliacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 122, 130
|treatment_page=page 131
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, cespitose, 15–50(–70) cm, glabrous, base soft; rhizomes absent. <b>Leaves</b> distichous, in fans, to ca. 2/3 plant height; sheaths keeled, equitant, margins entire; ligule absent; blades bifacial (flattened in same plane as sheath), narrowly triangularlinear, to 2 mm wide, margins scabrid at least distally. <b>Inflorescences</b>: anthela compound, usually diffuse, branched, broadening upward, often as broad as long; scapes slender, angularly ribbed and/or somewhat compressed distally, 1–1.5 mm wide or thick; involucral bracts exceeded by anthela. <b>Spikelets</b> dark red-brown, broadly ovoid to near round, 2–4 min; fertile scales broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1 mm, glabrous, apex broadly rounded, midrib not excurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 1–2; styles 3-fid, slender, base dilated, apex pubescent. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, tumid, obovoid, 1 mm, apiculate, reticulate, with pits narrowly rectangular in 4–6 vertical rows per side, the longitudinal ribs most prominent and mostly warty. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall, all year southward.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands and alluvia of open river and stream bottoms, low fields, drawdowns, shores, flatwoods, savanna, seeps, and open disturbed waste places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Fimbristylis miliacea</i> is another widespread annual weed whose origin is probably in the Asian rice belt. Two Linnaean types bear the epithet “miliacea.” A good argument exists that Vahl, first to adopt the plant as a <i>Fimbristylis</i>, took the round-spikeleted element as <i>F. miliacea</i>; the other, ovoid, acute-spikeleted element thus became F. quinquangularis (Vahl) Kunth.</p><!--
--><p>Because Gaudichaud’s epithet “littoralis” was not applied to the complex until 1826, it is invalidated in any case.</p>
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name=Fimbristylis miliacea
|authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fimbristylis littoralis;Isolepis miliacea;Scirpus bengalensis;Trichelostylis miliacea
|basionyms=Scirpus miliaceus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall, all year southward.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands and alluvia of open river and stream bottoms, low fields, drawdowns, shores, flatwoods, savanna, seeps, and open disturbed waste places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Fimbristylis
|species=Fimbristylis miliacea
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