View source for Cyperus ovatus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus ovatus
|accepted_authority=Baldwin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|place=2: 168. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus cylindricus
|authority=Chapman
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus deeringianus
|authority=Britton & Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus litoreus
|authority=(C. B. Clarke) Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus pollardii
|authority=Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus retrorsus var. curtisii
|authority=(C. B. Clarke) Kükenthal
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus retrorsus var. deeringianus
|authority=(Britton & Small) Fernald & Griscom
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus winkleri
|authority=C. B. Clarke
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mariscus curtisii
|authority=C. B. Clarke
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mariscus litoreus
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus ovatus
|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 ovatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 149
|treatment_page=page 183
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, (15–)30–100 cm. <b>Culms</b> not basally cormlike, trigonous, (15–)30–100 cm × 1–3 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> V-shaped, 10–65 cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes densely ovoid to cylindric, 8–17 mm wide; rays 1–6, 2–10 cm, glabrous; rachis 4–8 mm; bracts 3–9, ± horizontal, flat, 4–20 cm × 2–4 mm; rachilla persistent, wings deciduous, 0.2(–0.3) mm wide. <b>Spikelets</b> 30–80, oblong-lanceoloid, ± terete-quadrangular, 4–7 × 1.5–2 mm; distal spikelet spreading or ascending; floral scales persistent, 4–6, appressed, stramineous, laterally 3-ribbed, oblong-elliptic, 1.9–2.6 × 1.1–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; styles 0.5 mm; stigmas 1–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, ± stipitate, oblong-fusiform, 1.2–1.5 × 0.4–0.6 mm, apex ± acute, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy soils of beaches, coastal woods
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus ovatus
|author=
|authority=Baldwin
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus cylindricus;Cyperus deeringianus;Cyperus litoreus;Cyperus pollardii;Cyperus retrorsus var. curtisii;Cyperus retrorsus var. deeringianus;Cyperus winkleri;Mariscus curtisii;Mariscus litoreus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy soils of beaches, coastal woods
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus ovatus
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