View source for Cyperus oxylepis

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|accepted_name=Cyperus oxylepis
|accepted_authority=Nees ex Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 25. 1855
|year=1855
}}
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus oxylepis
|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. Cyperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus oxylepis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 145, 172
|treatment_page=page 171
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, coarse, (culms, leaves, bracts, and rays viscid). <b>Culms</b> roundly trigonous, 10–50 cm × 0.9–2.4 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: adaxial face concave, becoming flat to trigonous apically, 10–46 cm × 1.5–4 mm, margins involute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes ovoid, 1–5.5 cm wide; rays usually 3–6, 0.5–5 cm, glabrous; sometimes absent in small plants; if absent, inflorescence a congested head of spikelets 1–3.5 cm diam.; 2d order rays 0–3, 1–3 cm; bracts 3–5, vertical to ascending at 45°, 2.5–25 cm × 1.2–4 mm, margins involute; 2d order bracts 0–2, 5–20 mm; rachilla persistent, wingless. <b>Spikelets</b> 5–24, greenish yellow to golden brown, oblong to linear-lanceoloid, quadrangular, strongly compressed, 7–20(–30) × 2.5–4(–6) mm; floral scales 10–20(–40), spreading, pale green to stramineous, laterally 2–3-ribbed, ovate-lanceolate, 3.1–4 × 1.5–2.4 mm, apex with mucro 0.2–0.8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.6–0.8 mm; styles 0.8–1.6 mm; stigmas 1–1.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> light to dark brown, rarely somewhat reddish, stipitate, ellipsoid, 2–2.4 × 0.5–0.8 mm, base cuneate, stipe whitish, spongy, 0.2–0.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm, apex acute, persistent style forming beak 0.5–1.2 mm, surfaces glabrous or finely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Ditches and disturbed places in marshes, often in saline soil
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus oxylepis</i> is easily recognized by its sticky leaves, culms, and bracts (in living plants), involute leaves,and golden brown spikelets. The ovate-lanceolate floral scales and the ellipsoid, brownish achene with a persistent beak distinguish <i>C. oxylepis</i> from other species with deciduous floral scales.</p>
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name=Cyperus oxylepis
|author=
|authority=Nees ex Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
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|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Ditches and disturbed places in marshes, often in saline soil
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus oxylepis
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