View source for Cyperus filiformis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus filiformis
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=20. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus floridanus
|authority=Britton ex Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mariscus filiforme
|authority=(Swartz) Roemer & Schultes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mariscus floridensis
|authority=C. B. Clarke
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Torulinium filiforme
|authority=(Swartz) C. B. Clarke
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Diclidium;Cyperus filiformis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cyperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cyperus subg. Diclidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus filiformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 178
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 20–36 cm × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Leaves</b> flat, 4–22 cm × 1–2 mm. <b>Inflorescence</b> a single loose cluster of spikelets; rays 0–(1–2), if present, to 4 cm; bracts 2–3, ascending, 1–8 cm × 0.7–1 mm; rachilla with wings 0.6 mm wide. <b>Spikelets</b> 2–8, linear, terete, 6–20 × 0.7–1 mm; floral scales 6–10, medially green, laterally brown, medially faintly 3-ribbed, laterally faintly 3–5-ribbed, ovate, 2.5–3 × 2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 1 mm; styles 0.5 mm; stigmas 1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> black, sessile, obovoid, 2 × 0.8 mm, apex scarcely apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed places
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Cyperus filiformis
|author=
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus floridanus;Mariscus filiforme;Mariscus floridensis;Torulinium filiforme
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed places
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Diclidium
|species=Cyperus filiformis
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