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|accepted_name=Cyperus articulatus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 44. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus articulatus var. multiflorus
|authority=Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus articulatus var. nodosus
|authority=(Willdenow) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus corymbosus var. subnodosus
|authority=(Nees & Meyen) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus nodosus
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus nodosus var. subnodosus
|authority=(Nees & Meyen) Boeckeler
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus subnodosus
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus articulatus
|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 articulatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 146, 168
|treatment_page=page 167
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial; rhizomes to 200 cm. <b>Culms</b> to 25 cm apart, 1(–3) together, terete (scarcely compressed in drying), occasionally trigonous for apical 1/3, 40–140(–200) cm, 4–12 mm thick at base, (1.2–)1.5–2.5 mm thick at apex (with conspicuous transverse septa ca. 3 cm apart basally, to 3–5 mm apart apically), glabrous or infrequently scabrid on angles apically; sheaths at base of culm, 2–3, (5–)10–25 cm, loose, papery. <b>Leaves</b> usually bladeless, blades when present, cross ribs prominent, especially adaxially, (1–)10–20(–40) cm × 4–6(–9) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes 1(–5), broadly ovoid to ± umbellate, 15–45 × 10–30 mm; rays 5–7(–10), 0.3–8(–12) cm; 2d order rays occasionally present, 5–20 mm; bracts 2(–4), erect, longest appearing to be continuation of culm, deltate to lance-linear, 0.2–2(–9) cm × 1.5–4.5 mm; rachilla persistent, wings translucent, whitish, or stramineous, 0.4 mm wide. <b>Spikelets</b> (1–)5–10, linear, compressed, 10–35(–45) × 1.1–2 mm; floral scales deciduous, 15–45, spreading or appressed, laterally light brown, medially green to brown, laterally 1–2-ribbed, medially 3-ribbed, oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2.9–3.7 × 1.1–1.6(–1.8) mm, apex acute. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 1.7–2.4 mm; styles 1.2–3.6 mm; stigmas 1.7–6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, stipitate, obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.2–1.6 × 0.4–0.6 mm, stipe 0.1 mm, apex markedly apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes, shallow water, ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>In habit, <i>Cyperus articulatus</i> is reminscent of larger plants of <i>Juncus</i> or <i>Schoenoplectus</i> and is the only North American <i>Cyperus</i> with such a reedlike appearance.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus articulatus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus articulatus var. multiflorus;Cyperus articulatus var. nodosus;Cyperus corymbosus var. subnodosus;Cyperus nodosus;Cyperus nodosus var. subnodosus;Cyperus subnodosus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes, shallow water, ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus articulatus
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