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Family:

Cyperaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Voy. Monde (11): 161, t. 27. 1833

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Robust, caespitose perennial; culms erect, 45-150 cm tall, 3-sided. Leaves basal or cauline; largest leaves with sheath ca. 6-15 cm long, green or tinged reddish, the blade 1-1.5 m x 9-28 mm, green above and beneath or occasionally tinged reddish beneath basally, the margins usually lightly scabrous. Inflorescence a 3-7 branched panicle; bract subtending each panicle leaf-like, the basal bract with sheaths 1.5-4(-7) cm long and blades 65-100 x 0.9-28 cm; each panicle with a pedicel 3-7(-10) cm long, comprising 6-12 branches, the longest branch 1.5-5 cm long; each branch with 1-3 fruit bearing spikelets or branching secondarily. Fruiting spikelets globose, ca. 2-2.8 mm diam., the longest scales 3-4 x (1.6-)2.6-3.2 mm, the tip acuminate. Hypogynium subtending fruit as wide as fruit. Fruit plano-convex, the convex side depressed obloid, 1.7-2.8 x 0.6-1.2 mm, white to tan or rarely brown, smooth to lightly rugulose, shiny. Well drained forests, usually on slopes.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Becquerelia cymosa Brongn.: [Article] Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
Becquerelia cymosa Brongn.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.