Cyperus compressus L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual; culms slender, erect or reclining, smooth, 7-25 cm. long. Leaves light green, about 2 mm. wide, those of the involucre 2-3, the longer exceeding the spikelets; umbel capitate or with 2-3 short rays; spikelets narrowly lanceolate, acute, 8-20 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, very flat, many-flowered; scales light green with a yellow band on each side, ovate, acuminate, firm, keeled, several-nerved, falling away from the narrowly-winged rachis at maturity; stamens 3; style 3-cleft; achene sharply 3-angled, obovoid, obtuse, dull, brown, about one-third as long as the scale.
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Distribution
Waste grounds, New Providence : 'United States ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Trinidad ; Jamaica ; tropical continental America and Old World tropics. Flat Cyperus.
United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Jamaica South America|