Cyperus filiformis Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cyperus filiformis Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - Perennial; glabrous; culms very slender or filiform, tufted, rather weak, 2-7 dm. long. Leaves usually much shorter than the culm, about 2 mm. wide, those of the involucre 1 or 2, mostly longer than the 1 or 2 loose spikes; spikelets 3-10, nearly digitate, 1-2.5 cm. long, about 1 mm. thick, terete, erect or ascending, several-flowered; scales yellowish with a green keel, acutish, shining, faintly striate, ovate, inrolled, not overlapping; achene shorter than the scale, trigonous, ellipsoid, blackish, pointed at both ends.

  • Discussion

    Grassy places, New Providence : Cuba to St. Thomas and St. Croix : Jamaica. The Crooked Island reference of Hitchcock proves to be an error, his plant being Schoenus nigricans L. Slender Cyperus.

  • Distribution

    Cuba to St. Thomas and St. Croix : Jamaica.

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