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|accepted_name=Cyperus prolifer
|accepted_authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl.
|place=1: 147. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus isocladus
|authority=Kunth
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus prolifer
|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. Pycnostachys]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus prolifer]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 150
|treatment_page=page 152
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> trigonous to terete, 20–100 cm × 2–6 mm, soft (flattened in drying), glabrous, often flopping over and rooting at base of rays. <b>Leaves</b>: blades reduced to sheath. <b>Inflorescences</b>: rays 100–250, 5–16 cm; 2d order rays 0.5–5 cm; bracts 2–3, horizontal or reflexed, 4–12 cm × 1.5–4 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 1–30, linear-lanceoloid, ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid, compressed-quadrangular, 6–17 × 1–1.5 mm; floral scales 5–12, reddish brown, 1–3-ribbed, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–0.9 mm, apex mucronulate. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 3; anthers 1–1.2 mm; styles 0.3 mm; stigmas 1–1.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, obovoid, 0.4 × 0.2 mm, base stipelike to nearly cuneate, apex obtuse, surfaces finely reticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Pond shores, marshes
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;tropical e Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus prolifer</i> has long been cultivated in fish ponds and water gardens and has been reported under the name C. isocladus.</p>
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name=Cyperus prolifer
|author=
|authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus isocladus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Pond shores, marshes
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;tropical e Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl.
|publication year=1791
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus prolifer
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