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Bulbostylis hispidula
Bulbostylis hispidula (Afrikaans: fynbiesie, "fine rush") is a plant native to South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, and Namibia. The subspecies pyriformis can be found in all South African provinces except Western Cape. On the SANBI Red List, it is listed as "safe" (LC).
The species has an almost pan-tropical range: Central and northern South America; western, central, northeastern, eastern, and southern Africa, and southern Madagascar. There are several subspecies with somewhat narrower rangers, but this is not completely certain. They grow everywhere from grasslands with a rainy season and deserts to dry grasslands and marshes along the coast.
Watergrass · Bulbostylis bathiei · Bulbostylis burbidgeae · Bulbostylis cangae · Densetuft hairsedge · Bulbostylis eleocharoides · Bulbostylis fasciculata · Bulbostylis fluviatilis · Bulbostylis haitiensis · Tufted Sedge · Neglected tuft sedge · Hair Sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbostylis hispidula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
