Cyperus brunneus Sw.
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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 by stout rootstocks; culms stout, 7 dm. high or less. Leaves 4-10 mm. wide, pale green, the basal often overtopping the culm, those of the involucre 3-5, the longer much surpassing the inflorescence; umbel few-rayed, or glomerate, simple or little compound, the rays up to 3 em. long; spikelets short-spicate, 1-2 cm. long, about 3 mm. wide, with 5-10 achenes; scales brown, ovate, apiculate, strongly striate-nerved; achene obovoid, 3-angled.
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Discussion
Distribution and ecology: Sand dunes and white-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to the Caicos Islands, Little Inagua and Cay Sal : Bermuda : Florida ; West Indies ; Mexico. Consists of several races differing in stalked or sessile spikes, width of leaves, the scales ovate to elliptic-oblong. Recorded by Herrick as C. Vahlii Steud. Sand or Coast Cyperus.
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Distribution
Abaco and Great Bahama to the Caicos Islands, Little Inagua and Cay Sal : Bermuda : Florida ; West Indies ; Mexico.
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