View source for Cyperus amabilis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus amabilis
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 318. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus
|authority=(Boeckeler) Kükenthal
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus aurantiacus
|authority=Kunth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus aureus
|authority=Vahl
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus aureus var. aurantiacus
|authority=(Kunth) Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus aureus var. macrostachyus
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus aureus var. oligostachyus
|authority=(Kunth) Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus microstachyus
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus oligostachyus
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus amabilis
|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 amabilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 143, 156
|treatment_page=page 158
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 1–10(–25), roundly trigonous, 3–12 cm × 0.3–0.8 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 1–3–(4), 1–6 cm × 1(–1.5) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: if rays absent heads single, dense, sessile, digitate, 5–20 × 10–30 mm, single heads 10–30(–50) mm; rays usually absent, if present 1–8 cm; 2d order rays infrequently present, 1–2 cm; bracts 3–6, erect to oblique, flat to V-shaped,(0.5–)2–10(–15) cm × 0.5–2 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 5–10(–20), linear to linear-lanceoloid, (5–)8–12(–35) × 1.6–2.3(–2.5) mm; floral scales (6–)16–30(–76), laterally glossy reddish brown to brown, medially greenish, sometimes also reddish or brownish, laterally ribless, medially strongly 3-ribbed, ovate-lanceolate, 1.9–2(–2.3) mm (including prominent excurved cusp of 0.3–0.5 mm) × 0.8–1.1 mm, apex truncate, emarginate, or cuspidate. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens (1–)2–3; anthers ellipsoid, 0.3 mm, connectives not prolonged; styles 0.3–0.4 mm; stigmas 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, slightly stipitate, obovoid to oblong, 0.8–0.9 × 0.4–0.5 mm, apex abruptly apiculate, surfaces papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, sandy soils
|elevation=500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus amabilis
|author=
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus;Cyperus aurantiacus;Cyperus aureus;Cyperus aureus var. aurantiacus;Cyperus aureus var. macrostachyus;Cyperus aureus var. oligostachyus;Cyperus microstachyus;Cyperus oligostachyus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, sandy soils
|elevation=500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus amabilis
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