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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus distans
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Suppl. Pl.,
|place=103. 1782
|year=1782
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cyperus elatus
|authority=Rottbøll
|rank=species
|publication_title=Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl.,
|publication_place=37, plate 10. 1773,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus distans
|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 distans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 239
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> single or close together, trigonous, (10–)40–80(–120) cm × 1.2–2.5(–5) mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2–5, pleated, (10–)20–50(–90) cm × 2–5(–10) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes 1–4(–7), loose, broadly ovoid to ovoid-pyramidal, 25–35 × 25–35 mm; rays (4–)5–6(–8), (1–)3–8(–16) cm, glabrous; 2d order rays (0–)1–5, 5–15(–50) mm; bracts 4–7, ascending at 30–45°, pleated, (5–)20–40(–60) × (2–)3–8(–11) mm; 2d order bracts 1–4 per ray, 5–10(–30) × 0.5–1 mm, scabridulous; rachilla persistent, wingless (or very narrowly winged, not clasping achene). <b>Spikelets</b> (10–)20–35(–45), seemingly flattened proximally from spreading floral scales, becoming terete apically, linear, (10–)13–18(–25) × 1.2–1.5(–1.6) mm; floral scales deciduous, (10–)12–20(–25), laterally light reddish brown to dark red, medially greenish, laterally ribless, medially 3–5-ribbed, oblong-ovate, 1.7–2(–2.4) × 0.9–1.2 mm, apex obtuse, barely reaching next scale, apex entire, emarginate, mucro at most 0.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.4–0.5 mm; styles 0.3–0.6 mm; stigmas 1–1.8(–2) mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, narrowly oblong, (1.3–)1.4–1.6(–1.7) × (0.3–)0.4–0.5 mm, base cuneate to ± stipelike, apex acute, not apiculate, surfaces papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;N.C.;Mexico;West Indies (Dominican Republic south through the Lesser Antilles);South America;Asia;Africa.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Cyperus distans
|authority=Linnaeus f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cyperus elatus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;N.C.;Mexico;West Indies (Dominican Republic south through the Lesser Antilles);South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Suppl. Pl.,
|publication year=1782
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus distans
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