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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus elegans
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 45. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus trachynotus
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus elegans
|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 elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 147, 171
|treatment_page=page 172
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, shortly rhizomatous, coarse, viscous. <b>Culms</b> round to roundly trigonous, 15–80 cm × 2–4 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: adaxial face concave, becoming trigonous apically, 15–75 cm × 1–4 mm, margins involute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes ovoid, 10–20 mm wide; rays 3–8(–10), 0.5–12 cm; 2d order rays 0–3, 1–3 cm; bracts 3–7, horizontal to vertical, 2.5–5.5 cm × 1–4 mm, margins involute; 2d order bracts 0–3, 1–3 cm; rachilla persistent, wingless. <b>Spikelets</b> 3–20(–30), beige to greenish or reddish brown, strongly compressed, oblong-ellipsoid to oblong-lanceoloid, 3–15 × 2.5–3.5 mm; floral scales deciduous, 6–22, laterally pale greenish white to stramineous or reddish brown, medially pale green to yellowish green, laterally 2-ribbed, medially 3–5-ribbed, broadly ovate, (2–)2.8–3.6 × 2.4–2.6 mm, apex with slightly excurved mucro 0.2–0.3 mm, apically scabrid. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.6–1.4 mm; styles 1.2–1.5 mm; stigmas 1–1.5(–3) mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark reddish brown to black, stipitate, obovoid, faces concave, flat or subtly convex, (1.4–)1.8–2 × 0.9–1 mm, base cuneate, stipe (sometimes absent) spongy, 0.1–0.2 × 0.2–0.4 mm, apex truncate, apiculate, surfaces coarsely papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Ditches, damp pastures, pond shores, riverbanks
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus elegans
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus trachynotus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Ditches, damp pastures, pond shores, riverbanks
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus elegans
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