Cyperus cuspidatus Kunth
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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, glabrous; culms tufted, 2-14 em. tall, as long as the leaves, or longer. Leaves 1-2 mm. wide, those of the umbel usually 3 or 4, sometimes 1 dm. long; umbel 2-5-rayed, rarely capitate; rays 0.5-5 cm. long; spikelets linear, 5-12 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, digitate, many-flowered; scales chestnut-brown, nearly 2 mm. long, strongly 3-5-nerved, keeled, the recurveil spreading awn-like tip nearly as long as the body; stamens 1-3; achene broadly obovoid, 0.5 mm. long, trigonous, brown, apiculate; style very short.
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Distribution
Wet soil, New Providence, Cat Island, Fortune Island, Acklin's Island, South Caicos, Inagua : southern United States ; Cuba ; Anegada ; Yucatan ; South America. Recorded by Hitchcock as C. aristatus Kottb. Cuspidate Cyperus.
Cat Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Anegada Virgin Islands South America| Yucatán Mexico North America| South America|