Fimbristylis sericea(Poir.) R.Br.

WFO wfo-0000423337 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Fimbristylis sericea, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-24 / obs. 148950509
Fimbristylis sericea, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148950533
Fimbristylis sericea, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148950570

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Fimbristylis sericea is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Borneo, India, Jawa, Malaya, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia China SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanBorneoIndiaJawaMalayaSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Fimbristylis sericea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fimbristylis dasyphylla Miq.
  • Fimbristylis decora Nees & Meyen
  • Fimbristylis junciformis var. latifolia E.G.Camus
  • Fimbristylis velutina Franch.
  • Iria sericea (Poir.) Kuntze
  • Scirpus sericeus (R.Br.) Poir.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.