Cyperus confertus Sw.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cyperus confertus Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - Perennial by short rootstocks; culms rather slender, 1-4 dm. high, clustered. Leaves 3-5 mm. wide, the basal ones as long as the culms or shorter, those of the involucre 2 dm. long or less, the longer much surpassing the inflorescence; umbel simple, 1-7-rayed; heads subglobose, about 1 cm. thick; spikelets greenish-yellow, 5-7 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, flat, bearing 5-9 achenes; fertile scales ovate, keeled, strongly striate, tipped with short, somewhat curved awns; stamens 3 or sometimes 2; achene oblong-obovoid, 3-angled, 1-1.5 mm. long, about half as long as the scale.

  • Distribution

    Inagua: Hispaniola to St. Thomas and to Martinique; Jamaica. Curacao; northern South America ; Galapagos. Capitate Cyperus.

    Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Martinique South America| Jamaica South America| Curaçao South America| Galápagos Islands Ecuador South America|