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|accepted_name=Oxycaryum
|accepted_authority=Nees
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. F. P. von Martius et al., Fl. Brasil.
|place=2(1): 90. 1842
|year=1842
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Oxycaryum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oxycaryum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek oxys, sharp, and carya, nut
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 8
|treatment_page=page 140
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, not cespitose, stoloniferous, aquatic. <b>Culms</b> solitary, trigonous. <b>Leaves</b> basal; ligules present, ciliate; blades flat to V-shaped in cross section, prominently keeled on abaxial surface. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, umbellate heads or capitate; involucral bracts 1–6+, spreading, leaflike. <b>Spikelets</b>: scales 5–10+, 3-ranked, spirally arranged, each subtending flower. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth absent; stamens 3; styles 2-fid, linear, base persistent. <b>Achenes</b> plano-convex, margins and apex corky.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical America and Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lye1971b
|text=Lye, K. A. 1971c. Studies in African Cyperaceae: 2. The genus Oxycaryum Nees. Bot. Not. 124: 281–286.
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name=Oxycaryum
|author=Jeremy J. Bruhl
|authority=Nees
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|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Cyperaceae
|illustrator=Amanda Humphrey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical America and Africa.
|reference=lye1971b
|publication title=in C. F. P. von Martius et al., Fl. Brasil.
|publication year=1842
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|genus=Oxycaryum
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