View source for Cyperus ochraceus

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|accepted_name=Cyperus ochraceus
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 325. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus ochraceus
|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 ochraceus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 143, 153
|treatment_page=page 155
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose; rhizomes oblique. <b>Culms</b> roundly trigonous, 20–50(–80) cm × 1–3 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 3–11, V-shaped, 12–40 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads loosely to rather densely hemispheric, 15–30 mm diam.; rays 5–10, 2–12 cm; 2d order rays occasionally produced, 5–25 mm; bracts 4–8, approximately horizontal to ascending at 30°, V-shaped, 10–36 cm × 1.5–4 mm, margins glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> (4–)10–30, greenish, grayish, or stramineous, oblong to linear-oblong, compressed, (5–)7–10(–35) × 2–3 mm; floral scales 10–25(–85), laterally yellowish brown, medially yellowish or brownish, laterally ribless, medially 2-ribbed with groove between ribs, broadly ovate (widest in proximal 1/2), (1.2–)1.5–2 × 1.2–2 mm, apex obtuse (declined (45–)60–90º from rachilla). <b>Flowers</b>: stamen 1; anthers oblong, 0.8–1.2 mm, connective not prolonged; styles basally thickened, confluent with summit of achene, 0.6–1.2 mm; stigmas 0.3–0.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> reddish brown to dark purplish brown, dull or more often iridescent, stipitate, broadly ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm × 0.4–0.6(–0.7) mm, base cuneate to ± attenuate, stipe 0.1–0.2 mm, apex acute, beak 0.1–0.5 mm, surfaces reticulate with network of low ridges.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed soils, ditches, marshes
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Pa.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>In Pennsylvania, <i>Cyperus ochraceus</i> has been recorded in areas where ballast has been discarded.</p>
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name=Cyperus ochraceus
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed soils, ditches, marshes
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Pa.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus ochraceus
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