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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Fuirena simplex
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Eclog. Amer.
|place=2: 8. 1798
|year=1798
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena cylindrica
|authority=Bush
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena obtusiflora
|authority=Vahl
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena primiera
|authority=M. E. Jones
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena schiedeana
|authority=Kunth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena squarrosa var. macrostachya
|authority=Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fuirena zacapana
|authority=Bartlett
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fuirena;Fuirena simplex
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fuirena]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fuirena simplex]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 33
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual or perennial, mostly cespitose; rhizomes present or absent, if present without cormose buds. <b>Culms</b> tufted or widely spaced, erect to leaning, culm tips hispid-hirsute, internodes glabrous proximal to inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths at culm base or apex sometimes hairy, sheaths at or toward midculm usually glabrous; principal blades linear or lance-linear, flat, 5–20 cm, hispid-ciliate, abaxially hispid, pilose, or glabrous, adaxially glabrous to pilose. <b>Inflorescences</b> of spikelets in clusters 1–3(–5). <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid, lance-ovoid, or cylindric, 8–15(–20) mm, apex acute; fertile scales obovate or oblong, 2–3.5 mm; cusp spreading-excurved, 2/3 or more length of scale; evident ribs 5–7, central 3 convergent to cusp. <b>Flowers</b>: florets 2–3 mm; perianth bristles reaching base of perianth blades or beyond, retrorsely barbellate (sometimes with narrow blades); perianth blades with long claw, ovate, rounded or retuse, rarely acute, apically or subapically bristled, bristle erect or incurved, short to elongate, retrorsely scabridulous; anthers 1–3, 0.5–1.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b>: stipe and beak nearly as long as fruit; body angles pale, faces deep glossy brown, red-brown, or yellow, 1 mm; beak tip narrow, usually papillose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants perennial; anthers 0.9–1.2 mm.
|[[Fuirena simplex var. simplex|Fuirena simplex var. simplex]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants rhizomatous, usually annual; anthers 0.5– 0.6 mm.
|[[Fuirena simplex var. aristulata|Fuirena simplex var. aristulata]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Fuirena simplex
|author=
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fuirena cylindrica;Fuirena obtusiflora;Fuirena primiera;Fuirena schiedeana;Fuirena squarrosa var. macrostachya;Fuirena zacapana
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Eclog. Amer.
|publication year=1798
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_50.xml
|genus=Fuirena
|species=Fuirena simplex
}}<!--

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