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|accepted_name=Cyperus digitatus
|accepted_authority=Roxburgh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Ind.
|place=1: 209. 1820
|year=1820
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus digitatus
|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 digitatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 147, 171, 174
|treatment_page=page 173
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, coarse. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 50–150 cm × 2–15 mm, glabrous (rarely sparsely scabridulous on angles proximal to bracts). <b>Leaves</b> inversely W-shaped, 40–100 cm × 5–15 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes 1–4, cylindric, (2.5–)3.5–5 × 1.2–1.5 cm; rays 8–10, (1–)15–35 cm; 2d order rays 1–3 cm; bracts 8–12, ascending at 45–60°, (5–)20–80 cm × 3–15 mm; 2d order bracts 3–7 cm × 2–4 mm; rachilla persistent, wings 0.3 mm wide, at achene maturation adaxial edge of wing detaching from rachilla, base remaining firmly attached. <b>Spikelets</b> 35–65, slightly compressed, linear, ± quadrangular, 5–8 × 0.8–1.1 mm; floral scales deciduous, 12–16, appressed, marginally clear, laterally reddish along midrib, medially green, laterally 1–2-ribbed, medially strongly 5-ribbed, ovate, 1.6–1.8 × 1.1–1.3 mm, apex mucronulate. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.4–0.5 mm, connective blunt, at most 0.1 mm; styles 0.8–1 mm; stigmas 0.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown or whitish, sessile, ellipsoid, slightly wider at base, 0.9 × 0.4 mm, surfaces finely puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet pastures, stream banks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
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name=Cyperus digitatus
|authority=Roxburgh
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet pastures, stream banks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Ind.
|publication year=1820
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus digitatus
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