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|accepted_name=Remirea
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 44, plate 16. 1775
|year=1775
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Remirea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Remirea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 8
|treatment_page=page 191
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, not cespitose, rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> solitary, trigonous, 12 cm or less, smooth. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths present; ligules absent; blades flat to V-shaped in cross section, prominently keeled on abaxial surface. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, capitate; spikes 1–6; spikelets 100+; involucral bracts 1–6, spreading to suberect, leaflike. <b>Spikelets</b>: subtending bract 1, prophyll 1, scales 2, proximal scale empty, other scale subtending flower. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth absent; stamens 3; styles terete, 3-fid, base persistent. <b>Achenes</b> rounded-trigonous.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pantropical.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Remirea</i> has been included in <i>Cyperus</i> (J. H. Kern 1974; G. C. Tucker 1987, among others). In cladistic analyses (J. J. Bruhl 1995), <i>Remirea</i> almost always appeared as the sister group to the African monotypic Sphaerocyperus Lye and was directly grouped with neither the subgenera of <i>Cyperus</i> nor the narrowly defined genera segregated from <i>Cyperus</i>. <i>Remirea</i> is distinctive in possessing, among other features, thick, corky fertile internodes at maturity (which may be mistaken for the achene), rachillas of definite growth, leaf vascular bundles in multiple rows, culm epidermal cells radially elongated in transverse section, terminal spikelets present, C4 photosynthetic pathway, two fertile floral bracts, inflorescence prophylls not pulvinate, culms with hypodermis, and floral bracts persistent (J. J. Bruhl and S. Perry 1995). The structure of chloroplasts in vascular bundles differs from other C4 genera of Cyperaceae (M. M. Estelita 1993).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=estelita1993a
|text=Estelita, M. M. 1993. Remirea Aubl., a new Kranz genus. Revista Brasil. Bot. 16: 137–141.
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name=Remirea
|author=Jeremy J. Bruhl;Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|distribution=Pantropical.
|reference=estelita1993a
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=1775
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|genus=Remirea
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