Vahl, Enum. Pl. 2:231.1805 Weak, slender annual, 10-35 (50) cm tall, glabrous throughout; culms leafy. Leaves linear, mostly 10-20 cm long, l-2 mm wide. Bracts slender, scabrid; spikelets in lax, slender corymbs to 1.5 mm long, the upper flowers staminate, the lower flowers bisexual; scales 1-veined, awn-pointed; bristles lacking; stamens 3, style bifid. Achene rounded to obovate, biconvex, white, ca 1 mm long, transversely rugose, the style base slender. Kenoyer 153. The plant grows in similar locations as and looks similar to Bulbostylis junciformis (H.B.K.) Lindm., which does not occur on BCI. Throughout Central America; West Indies; tropical Africa. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest in the Canal Zone, San Blas, and Panama, from premontane moist forest in the Canal Zone, from premontane wet forest in the Canal Zone and Panama, and from tropical wet forest in Colón.