View source for Cyperus seslerioides

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|accepted_name=Cyperus seslerioides
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=1: 209. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus seslerioides
|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 seslerioides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 144, 156
|treatment_page=page 157
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose; rhizomes knotty, much branched, 2–5 mm diam., scaly. <b>Culms</b> roundly trigonous, basally with dark fibrous remnants of old leaf sheaths, (0.5–)4–30 cm × 0.4 –1.1 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 1–5, flat, involute toward apex, 3–18 cm × 1–2.5(–3) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads hemispheric to spheric, (3–)6–15(–24) mm diam.; rays absent; bracts 2–5, horizontal to reflexed, parallel to culm, 1–13 cm × 1–3 mm, margins and keel sparsely minutely scabridulous distally. <b>Spikelets</b> (5–)20–60(–100), whitish to greenish or brownish, ovoid to oblong-lanceoloid, compressed, 3–7 × 2–4 mm; floral scales (8–)10–12(–24), laterally milky white (infrequently yellowish, pale greenish, brown, or bronze-white), medially green or white, laterally ribless, medially 3-ribbed, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.6–3(–3.4) × 0.8–1.3 mm, apex mucronate to acuminate. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 3; anthers linear, (0.4–)0.6–0.8(–1.1) mm, connective not prolonged; styles 0.8–1.8 mm; stigmas (0.5–)1–1.5(–2) mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown to blackish, trigonous, broadly obovoid, 0.5–1 × 0.3–0.75 mm, base slightly stipelike, ± cuneate to rounded, apex apiculate, papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seeps, damp meadows in montane forests
|elevation=1000–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Honduras);South America.
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|references=
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name=Cyperus seslerioides
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seeps, damp meadows in montane forests
|elevation=1000–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Honduras);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1816
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus seslerioides
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