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|accepted_name=Kyllinga brevifolia
|accepted_authority=Rottbøll
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl.,
|place=13, plate 4, fig. 3. 1773
|year=1773
}}
|common_names=Perennial greenhead sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus brevifolius
|authority=(Rottbøll) Endlicher ex Hasskarl
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Kyllinga;Kyllinga brevifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Kyllinga]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Kyllinga brevifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 192
|treatment_page=page 193
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose or not, long-creeping rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> sometimes spaced to 3 cm apart, (5–)12–25(–55) cm, smooth. <b>Leaves</b> flat, 2–21 cm × 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes 1–3, 4–7 × 4 mm; bracts 3–4, longest ± erect, others ascending to horizontal, flat, 1.5–18 cm × 1–3.3 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> (20–)40–60(–100), pale greenish or reddish brown, ovate, (2.2–)2.5–2.8(–3.2) × (0.6–)0.7–0.8(–1.2) mm; floral scales laterally 2–3-veined, elliptic to ovate, 1.8–3 × (0.8–)1.1–1.6 mm, midvein not winged, apex mucronate; stamens (1–)2; anthers 0.8–1.1 mm; style 0.6–1.2 mm; stigmas 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, substipitate or stipitate, ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid, 1–1.2(–1.3) × 0.6–0.8 mm, stipe, if present, 0.1–0.2 mm, apex obtuse to subtruncate, apiculate, papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp grasslands, shorelines, ditches, croplands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Reports of <i>Kyllinga brevifolia</i> from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia should be referred to as <i>K. gracillima</i>.</p>
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name=Kyllinga brevifolia
|authority=Rottbøll
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cyperus brevifolius
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp grasslands, shorelines, ditches, croplands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl.,
|publication year=1773
|special status=
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|genus=Kyllinga
|species=Kyllinga brevifolia
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