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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus compressus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 46. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus compressus var. pectiniformis
|authority=(Roemer & Schultes) C. B. Clarke
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus pectinatus
|authority=Roemer & Schultes
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus pectiniformis
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus compressus
|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 compressus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 144, 145
|treatment_page=page 171
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, cespitose with fibrous roots. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, (2–)6–15(–35) cm × (0.3–)1–1.8 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 1–5, flat to V-shaped, (1–)5–15(–22) cm × (0.5–)1.5–3 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes ± digitate, ± globose, 7–40 × 10–20 mm; rays (0–)1–6, 2–12 cm; if absent, inflorescence a sessile cluster of (1–)3–10 spikelets; rachis 2–5 mm; bracts (1–)4–5(–6), ascending, V-shaped, 1–15(–20) cm × 0.5–3.5 mm; rachilla persistent, wingless. <b>Spikelets</b> (1–)3–12(–16), greenish white, linear to linear-lanceoloid, compressed-quadrangular, 6–34(–40) × 2–3(–3.6) mm; floral scales deciduous, (8–)16–36(–42), spreading, laterally whitish, greenish, or pale brownish, medially green, weakly 7–9-ribbed, laterally weakly 1–2-ribbed, most ribs medial, ovate, (2.4–)2.6–3 × (1.9–)2–2.4(–2.5) mm, apex acute to ± acute, cuspidate tip (0.3–)0.5–0.7(–0.8) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.6–0.7 mm; styles 0.9–1.3 mm; stigmas 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, stipitate to sessile, obovoid, (1–)1.2–1.4(–1.5) × 0.9–1(–1.1) mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, surfaces very finely puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Various disturbed soils
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus compressus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus compressus var. pectiniformis;Cyperus pectinatus;Cyperus pectiniformis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Various disturbed soils
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;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 compressus
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