Cyperus fuligineus Chapm.
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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 - Perennial; culms very slender, smooth, tufted, 1-4 dm. high, rather rigid. Leaves revolute-margined, shorter than the culm, those of the involucre usually 2, unequal; spikelets linear, 6-10 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, densely crowded in a single terminal head; scales ovate to oval, about 2 mm. long, dark brown, striate, mucronulate; style 3-cleft; achene3 oblong-obovoid, trigonous, about 1.5 mm. long, dull, brown.
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Distribution
Sandy and rockv soil, Berry Islands, New Providence and Eleuthera to Ambergris Cay, Grand Turk, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuban Cays ; Anegada ; Bonaire : Curacao. Recorded by Coker and presumably by Dolley as C. Vahalli Steud. ; by Hitchcock as C. brunneus Sw.
Berry Islands Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Anegada Virgin Islands South America| Bonaire South America| Curaçao South America|