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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Abildgaardia ovata
|accepted_authority=(Burman f.) Kral
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=4: 72. 1971
|year=1971
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ovata
|authority=Burman f.
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Abildgaardia monostachya
|authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus monostachyos
|authority=Linnaeus
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis monostachya
|authority=(Linnaeus) Hasskarl
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis ovata
|authority=(Burman f.) J. Kern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Iriha monostachya
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Abildgaardia;Abildgaardia ovata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Abildgaardia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Abildgaardia ovata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 135
|treatment_page=page 137
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> bulbous-based, (5–)10–50(–70) cm. <b>Culms</b> erect to radiately spreading, leafy at base, most of length a scape; scape glabrous, wiry, 0.5 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal leaves persistent as fibrous scales; principal leaves at least 1/2 as long as scapes; sheaths open, broad-based, shorter than blades, margins pale or brown, scarious, forming broad auricle at junction with blade; blades filiform, to 1 mm, margins incrassate, glabrous or scabridulous, apex acute to blunt, scabrid; abaxial surfaces convex, coarsely ribbed, adaxial flat or concave. <b>Spikelets</b> commonly 1, less often 2(–3) in simple monochasium or dichasium, lance-ovoid, 10–15 mm, glabrous, acute; scales at least 10, ovate, curvate-keeled, proximal 1–4 bracteal, at least proximalmost with strong cusp, the rest fertile, apex shortacuminate or acute, mucronate to apiculate; stamens 1–3; anthers 3–4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> pale, 2.5–3 mm; body nearly globose, pebbly. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly savanna, solution pockets in limerock
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Abildgaardia ovata
|author=
|authority=(Burman f.) Kral
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Abildgaardia monostachya;Cyperus monostachyos;Fimbristylis monostachya;Fimbristylis ovata;Iriha monostachya
|basionyms=Carex ovata
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly savanna, solution pockets in limerock
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Bermuda;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1971
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_217.xml
|genus=Abildgaardia
|species=Abildgaardia ovata
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