Stenophyllus

• Authority

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

• Family

  Cyperaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stenophyllus

• Description

  Genus Description - Mostly annual sedges, with slender erect culms, leafy below, the leaves narrowly linear or filiform, with eiliate or pubescent sheaths. Spikelets umbellate, capitate or solitary, usually subtended by a 1-several-leaved involucre, their scales spirally imbricated all around, mostly deciduous. Flowers perfect. Perianth none. Stamens 2 or 3. Style 2-3-cleft, glabrous, its base much swollen and persistent as a tubercle on the aehene as in Eleocharis. Achene 3- angled, turgid or lenticular. [Greek, referring to the narrow leaves.] A genus of some 90 species, natives of temperate and warm regions. Type species: Scirpus stenophyllus Ell.