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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus lecontei
|accepted_authority=Torrey ex Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 21. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus dentatus var. multiradiatus
|authority=Torrey
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus multiradiatus
|authority=(Torrey) C. Mohr
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus lecontei
|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 lecontei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 144, 150
|treatment_page=page 151
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous, with stolons, lacking tubers. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm. <b>Leaves</b> flat to V-shaped, 10–40 cm × 2–5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads digitate, 10–40 mm diam.; rays 5–12, 1–12 cm; 2d order rays 1–3 cm; bracts 3–5, horizontal, flat to V-shaped, 1–15 cm × 1–2 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> (1–)2–4(–6), oblong to linear, compressed, 5–25 × 2.8–3.6 mm; floral scales 20–60, stramineous or reddish green, laterally weakly 3-ribbed, ovate-elliptic, 2.5–3 × 1–1.8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 3; anthers 1–1.3 mm; styles 0.6 mm; stigmas 1.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> reddish brown, sessile, ovoid, 0.7–0.8 × 0.4–0.5 mm, apex obtuse, apiculate or not, surfaces glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Emergent shorelines
|elevation=0–100(–300) m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Cyperus lecontei
|author=
|authority=Torrey ex Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus dentatus var. multiradiatus;Cyperus multiradiatus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Emergent shorelines
|elevation=0–100(–300) m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus lecontei
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