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|accepted_name=Cyperus sphacelatus
|accepted_authority=Rottbøll
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Descr. Pl. Rar.,
|place=21. 1772
|year=1772
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus balbisii
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus sphacelatus
|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 sphacelatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 171
|treatment_page=page 170
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, cespitose. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 15–60 cm × 1–3 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2–6, flat to V-shaped, 6–30(–40) cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes broadly ellipsoid, 5–45 × 10–30(–45) mm; rays (2–)5–9, (0.3–)3–10 cm; rachis 4–17 mm; bracts 5–6, horizontal to ascending, V-shaped, 1.5–30 cm × 0.5–4 mm; rachilla persistent, wings hyaline, 0.4–0.5 mm wide. <b>Spikelets</b> 5–30, pale greenish white or stramineous, compressed, linear-lanceoloid, 7–35 × (1.2–)1.4–2 mm; floral scales deciduous, 6–34, spreading or appressed, laterally greenish white, often reddish or brown speckled, medially green, laterally 3–5-ribbed, medially 3-ribbed, elliptic, (2.2–)3–4(–4.4) × (1.2–)1.8–2.2 mm, apex acute. <b>Flowers</b>: anthers 0.6 mm; styles 0.6–1.2 mm; stigmas 1–1.4(–1.7) mm. <b>Achenes</b> reddish brown to dark brown, stipitate, narrowly ellipsoid, 1.4–2 × 0.6–0.9 mm, apex apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Disturbed, wet soils
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|introduced=true
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|references=
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name=Cyperus sphacelatus
|authority=Rottbøll
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus balbisii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Disturbed, wet soils
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Descr. Pl. Rar.,
|publication year=1772
|special status=Introduced;Illustrated
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus sphacelatus
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