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Cyperaceae Juss.

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Cyperaceae Juss.
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Cyperaceae

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Cyperaceae

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Cyperaceae Juss.

Herbs, usually perennial, often rhizomatous. Stems usually solid, often 3-angled. Leaves usually linear, some or all often reduced to basal sheaths. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, each in the axil of a glume (bracteole), arranged in spikelets; inflorescence various, a simple or compound irregular umbel or panicle, or a capitate cluster of spikelets or a solitary terminal spike; commonly with 1 to several setaceous to leaf-like involucral bracts. Perianth of bristles, scales, hairs or 0. Stamens 3-(2-1), rarely 4-6. Ovary superior, 1-locular; style-branches 2 or 3; ovule solitary. Fruit a nut, indehiscent. Cosmopolitan, c. 90 genera and c. 4000 spp.

Cyperaceae Juss.

Fls hermaphrodite or unisexual, each in the axil of a bracteole (glume) and arranged in spikelets; infl. various, a simple or compound irregular umbel or panicle, or a capitate cluster of spikelets or a single terminal spike; commonly subtended by 1 to several involucral lvs. Per. of bristles, scales, hairs or 0. Stamens 3–(2–1), rarely 4–6; anthers basifixed, 2-celled, connective us. ± produced into a small point. Ovary superior, 1-locular; style-branches 2 or 3; ovule solitary, anatropous. Fr. nutlike, ind.; seed with cop. endosperm. Us. perennial, often rhizomatous herbs. Culms us. solid, often triquetrous. Lvs us. linear, some or all often reduced to sheaths. Cosmopolitan, c. 90 genera and c. 4,000 spp.

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Cyperaceae Juss.
Cyperaceae
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Cyperaceae
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Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae Juss.
Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae Juss.
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Cyperaceae Juss.
Australia
Cyperaceae Juss.
Nepal
Cyperaceae Juss.
New Caledonia
Cyperaceae Juss.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cyperaceae Juss.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cyperaceae Juss.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cyperaceae Juss.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Cyperaceae Juss.
United States

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66ec7805-513d-4672-b87d-4c6d86adfacb
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 August 2015
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