View source for Cyperus spectabilis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyperus spectabilis
|accepted_authority=Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novi Provent.,
|place=15. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Showy sedge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus buckleyi
|authority=Britton ex J. M. Coulter
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus parryi
|authority=Britton ex C. B. Clarke
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus scaberrimus
|authority=Nees
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus spectabilis var. filiformis
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus spectabilis var. parryi
|authority=(C. B. Clarke) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus spectabilis var. scaberrimus
|authority=(Nees) Boeckeler
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus spectabilis
|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 spectabilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 147
|treatment_page=page 178
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, (12–)30–80(–90) cm × 0.7–1.7 mm, glabrous or nearly so. <b>Leaves</b> flat to V-shaped, 20–45 cm × 2–4 mm, margins and keel minutely scabridulous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spike 1, loosely ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, (1.5–)2.5–7 × (1–)1.5–3.5 cm; rays 1–4, 1–15 cm; rachis 1–2 cm; bracts 2–4, oblique or ascending, 1–15(–24) cm × 0.4–3.5 mm, keel, margins scabrid; rachilla ± deciduous, wingless. <b>Spikelets</b> (3–)8–40, linear, compressed-quadrangular, 8–18 × (2.4–)2.8–4 mm; floral scales deciduous, (2–)4–12, laterally light brown to reddish brown, medially green or light brown, laterally 2–3-ribbed, oblong-ovate, 1.6–2.6 × (1.5–)1.6–2.2(–2.4) mm, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, medially glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; styles 0.3–0.6 mm; stigmas 0.6–1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brownish, stipitate, ellipsoid, 1.6–2 × (0.7–)0.9–1 mm, stipe whitish, 0.1–0.2 mm, apex obtuse, slightly apiculate, surfaces papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Arroyos, riverbanks, clearings in montane forests
|elevation=100–1300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus spectabilis
|authority=Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus buckleyi;Cyperus parryi;Cyperus scaberrimus;Cyperus spectabilis var. filiformis;Cyperus spectabilis var. parryi;Cyperus spectabilis var. scaberrimus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Arroyos, riverbanks, clearings in montane forests
|elevation=100–1300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Tex.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novi Provent.,
|publication year=1818
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus spectabilis
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