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|accepted_name=Cyperus pumilus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cent. Pl. II,
|place=6. 1756
|year=1756
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cyperus leucolepis
|authority=J. Carey ex C. B. Clarke
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Juncellus leucolepis
|authority=(J. Carey ex C. B. Clarke) C. B. Clarke
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pycreus pumilus
|authority=(Linnaeus) Domin
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycreus;Cyperus pumilus
|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. Pycreus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus pumilus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 142, 162
|treatment_page=page 163
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, cespitose. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 1–35 cm × 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> flat, 5–20 cm × 1–2 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads ± digitate, 8–26 mm diam.; rays 1–6, 0.5–5 cm; bracts 3–4, ± horizontal, flat, 3–18 cm × 1–2 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 6–25, ovoid to linear-lanceoloid, compressed, 4–15 × 1–2 mm; floral scales 8–28(–40), clear, laterally ribless, ovate, 1.4–1.6 × 0.8 mm, apex awned, awn excurved, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 1–2; anthers 0.2 mm; styles 0.5 mm; stigmas 0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown to black, sessile, obovoid, 0.6 × 0.4 mm, apex obtuse, apiculate, surfaces minutely punctate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Disturbed, sandy soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (introduced);Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus pumilus</i> is distinctive because it is our only distigmatic <i>Cyperus</i> with awned floral scales.</p><!--
--><p><i>Cyperus</i> hyalinus Vahl, a southeastern Asian and Australian species, has recently been collected in Miami-Dade County, Florida (Mears s.n., EIU, VSC). This is an aberrant species sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Queenslandiella as Q. hyalina (Vahl) F. Ballard; it differs from <i>C. pumilus</i> in having deciduous rachillae as well as deciduous floral scales.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyperus pumilus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cyperus leucolepis;Juncellus leucolepis;Pycreus pumilus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Disturbed, sandy soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (introduced);Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Cent. Pl. II,
|publication year=1756
|special status=Introduced;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_260.xml
|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycreus
|species=Cyperus pumilus
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