View source for Cyperus fuscus

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|accepted_name=Cyperus fuscus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 46. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Brown galingale
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus fuscus
|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. Pycnostachys]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus fuscus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 144, 156
|treatment_page=page 157
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, cespitose. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 2–30 cm × 0.6–1.1 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> flat, 4–10 cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: rays 1–3, 0.2–1.5 cm; 2d order rays present in robust plants, to 5 mm; bracts 2–3, longest erect, others spreading, 1–20 cm × 1.5–3 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 3–12, narrowly ellipsoid, flattened, 3–7 × 0.9–1.2 mm; floral scales 8–12(–16), laterally purplish brown, medially greenish yellow, 3-ribbed medially, orbiculate, 0.9–1.1 × 1 mm, apex mucronate. <b>Flowers</b>: stamen 1; anthers ellipsoid, 0.2 mm, connective not prolonged; styles 0.3–0.4 mm; stigmas 0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, ellipsoid, 0.7–0.9 × 0.4 mm, base barely stipelike to narrowly cuneate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed soils, emergent shorelines, puddles
|elevation=0–1700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Md.;Mass.;Mo.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.J.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Va.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>A native of temperate Eurasia, Cyperus fuscus is intermittently adventive and locally established 35°–45° N latitude. The report from New York (M. L. Fernald 1950) is based on a misidentification of C. diandrus (R. S. Mitchell and G. C. Tucker 1997).</p>
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name=Cyperus fuscus
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp, disturbed soils, emergent shorelines, puddles
|elevation=0–1700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Md.;Mass.;Mo.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.J.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Va.;Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus fuscus
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