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|accepted_name=Cyperus papyrus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 47. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Papyrus;Egyptian paper-reed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus papyrus
|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 papyrus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 147, 167, 174
|treatment_page=page 173
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, stout. <b>Culms</b> roundly trigonous, 300–500 cm × 15–45 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> bladeless. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes loosely cylindric, 10–20 × 6–10 mm; rays 40–100, drooping or arching, slender, 10–30 cm; 2d order rays 8–20 cm; bracts 4–10, ± erect, V-shaped, 3–8 cm × 4–15 mm; 2d order bracts 2–5, (1.5–)4–16 cm × 0.5–2 mm; rachilla persistent, separating laterally, remaining firmly attached basally, wings 0.3–0.4 mm wide. <b>Spikelets</b> 6–30, slightly compressed, linear, ± quadrangular, 6–10 × 0.8–1 mm; floral scales 6–16, reddish beside 5-ribbed green medial part, white to hyaline near margins, ovate-elliptic, 1.8–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.8–1 mm (connectives prolonged beyond anther as red subulate appendage 0.2–0.5 mm, apex usually setose); styles 0.2–0.4 mm; stigmas 0.8–1.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, sessile, oblong, 0.8–1 × 0.4 mm, apex scarcely apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Stream banks, marshes
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Europe;sw Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus papyrus</i> is conspicuous in the field by its great height, leafless culm, and open, hemispheric inflorescence with drooping rays.</p><!--
--><p>Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans prepared paper from the pith of the culms of <i>Cyperus papyrus</i>, which is abundant along the Nile River.</p>
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name=Cyperus papyrus
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Stream banks, marshes
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Europe;sw Asia;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus papyrus
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