View source for Cyperus plukenetii

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|accepted_name=Cyperus plukenetii
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=47: 110, plate 877. 1945
|year=1945
}}
|common_names=Plukenet’s sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus plukenetii
|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 plukenetii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 148, 181
|treatment_page=page 180
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose. <b>Culms</b> basally cormlike, obtusely trigonous to subterete, 25–100 cm × 2–4 mm, densely minutely scabridulous. <b>Leaves</b> inversely W-shaped, 20–70 cm × 4–7 mm, adaxial surface densely hirtellous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes turbinate, 10–12 × 6–9 mm, ± as long as wide; rays 6–12, 1–30 cm (longest bract equaling or shorter than longest ray), harshly scabrid; bracts 3–10, horizontal to ascending at 30°, inversely W-shaped, 6–27 cm × 3–6 mm; rachilla persistent, wings hyaline, 0.5 mm wide, covering 1/2 of mature achene. <b>Spikelets</b> 30–60, proximal spikelets reflexed nearly parallel to ray, distal ones spreading, linear, ± terete, 6–8 × 1–1.4 mm; floral scales persistent, 1(–2), appressed, stramineous, often suffused with reddish purple, laterally 4–6-ribbed, ovate-lanceolate, 4–4.5 × 1.4–1.6 mm, apex straight, excurved mucronate or cuspidate; terminal scale spinose. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.5–1 mm; styles 1.5–2 mm; stigmas 2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, narrowly oblong, (2.4–)2.7–2.9(–3.2) × 0.7–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse, apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jul–Aug).
|habitat=Dry sand hills, xeric upland woods
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus plukenetii</i> is distinguished by its tight, burlike spikes, few-flowered spikelets, and densely pubescent culms, leaves, and rays.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus plukenetii
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jul–Aug).
|habitat=Dry sand hills, xeric upland woods
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1945
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_308.xml
|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus plukenetii
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