Cyperus paniculatus Rottb.
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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, bright green. Leaves 1-4 mm. wide; culms slender, tufted, 1-4 dm. tall, often surpassing the leaves; bracts of the involucre 3-5, surpassing the umbel, the longer ones up to 2 dm. long; umbel with 3-8 rays, or rarely nearly capitate: spikelets few, linear or linear-lanceolate, 6-15 mm. long, acute; scales light chestnut-brown, oblong-lanceolate, acute, shining, striate, deciduous at maturity; style 2-cleft; achene lenticular, oblong, grayish, abruptly apiculate, fully half as long as the scale.
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Distribution
Moist ground, New Providence : southeastern United States : West Indies ; tropical continental America. Referred by Clarke to Pycraeus ferrugineus ; recorded by Dolley as C. polystachyus Rottb. Paniclkd Cyperus.
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