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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus distinctus
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 24. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus virens var. brittonii
|authority=C. B. Clarke
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus distinctus
|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 distinctus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 143, 153, 155
|treatment_page=page 154
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> terete, 40–60(–90)cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> flat, 35–70 cm × 4–9(–12) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads hemispheric, 10–20 mm diam.; rays 5–9(–14), 3.5–10 cm; 2d order rays 0.5–2 cm; bracts 5–10, ± horizontal, flat, 12–40(–50) cm × 2–7 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> (25–)35–50(–60), ovoid, compressed, (3.5–)5–12(–14) × 2.5–3.5(–4) mm; floral scales 10–32, golden brown to brown, 2-keeled, laterally ribless, narrowly lanceolate, 2–2.2(–3) × 0.8–1.4 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: stamen 1; anthers 1 mm; styles 1 mm; stigmas 0.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, stipitate, narrowly ellipsoid, 1.5–2 × 0.2–0.4 mm, base swollen, spongy, stipe 0.2 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute, beak slender, 0.2 mm, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp grasslands, roadsides, ditches
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;S.C.;West Indies (Bahamas).
|discussion=<p>The slender achenes with conspicuously swollen bases distinguish <i>Cyperus distinctus</i> from other species of subg. Pycnostachys.</p>
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name=Cyperus distinctus
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus virens var. brittonii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp grasslands, roadsides, ditches
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;S.C.;West Indies (Bahamas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus distinctus
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