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|accepted_name=Olsynium
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=New Fl.
|place=1: 72. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Grass widow
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Olsynium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Olsynium]]</div></div>
|etymology=said by Rafinesque to mean hardly united, alluding to the stamens
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 17
|treatment_page=page 350
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, strongly cespitose, rootstock indistinct. <b>Stems</b> simple, terete. <b>Leaves</b> 2–4, cauline, alternate, reduced basally; blade basally clasping or terete. <b>Inflorescences</b> rhipidiate, 1–5-flowered; spathes 2, green, leaflike, unequal, apex acute or, rarely, obtuse. <b>Flowers</b> not fragrant, actinomorphic; tepals distinct, reddish purple to magenta, occasionally pink or white, not clawed, ± equal; stamens symmetrically arranged; filaments connate to 1/2 their length; anthers parallel, not appressed to style branches; style branches 3, filiform, short, extending between anthers. <b>Capsules</b> globose to obovoid or broadly turbinate, ± smooth to distended around seeds, apex broadly rounded, basal 0.2 mm of styles sometimes persistent. <b>Seeds</b> many, obconic, angular; seed coat brown, coarsely rugulose. <b>x</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 12 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=goldblatt1990b
|text=Goldblatt, P., P. J. Rudall, and J. E. Henrich. 1990. The genera of the Sisyrinchium alliance (Iridaceae: Iridoideae): Phylogeny and relationships. Syst. Bot. 15: 497–510.
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|id=henderson1972a
|text=Henderson, D. M. 1972. A Biosystematic Study of the Genus Sisyrinchium (Iridaceae) in the Pacific Northwest. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Washington.
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name=Olsynium
|author=Anita F. Cholewa;Douglass M. Henderson†
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=North America;South America.
|reference=goldblatt1990b;henderson1972a
|publication title=New Fl.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|genus=Olsynium
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