Cyperus reflexus |
Cyperus microiria |
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bentawn flatsedge |
lesser rice-field flatsedge |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, cespitose; rhizomes elongate, scaly, 2–3 mm wide. | Herbs, annual, cespitose. |
Culms | roundly trigonous to terete, 30–80 cm × 1–1.6 mm, glabrous. |
trigonous, (5–)20–60 cm × (0.2–)0.6–2.4 mm, glabrous. |
Leaves | 1–6, 10–40 cm, glabrous or essentially so. |
(1–)3–4, V-shaped, 15–40 cm × 3–6 mm. |
Inflorescences | heads ovoid to pyramidal, 9–15 mm diam.; rays 0 or 3–6, 0.5–4 cm, glabrous; bracts 3–4, longest erect, appearing as continuation of culm, others horizontal to ascending, 4–17 cm × 1.5–4 mm. |
spikes 2–5(–8), oblong to ovoid, 2–10 cm × 3–12 mm; rays 4–8, to 11 cm; bracts (4–)5(–7), ascending at 45°, V-shaped, (1.5–)8–30(–50) cm × 1–6 mm; rachilla persistent, wingless (successive floral scales 1.1–1.5 mm apart). |
Spikelets | 25–60, reddish with contrasting yellowish or greenish edges, oblong-lanceoloid, strongly compressed, 5–6(–15) × 1.5–2.5 mm; floral scales 10–22, laterally reddish, medially yellowish green, 2-keeled, laterally strongly 1-ribbed on each side, proximally grooved, ovate-elliptic, 1.4–2.2 × 0.8–1.5 mm, apex acute, apically scabridulous (sometimes glabrous). |
10–30, spreading, compressed, linear, 4–20 × 1.5–2.1 mm; floral scales deciduous, (2–)6–26, laterally brown to golden brown, edges clear, medially green, 5-ribbed, outermost ribs more noticeable than others, obovate to nearly orbiculate, 1.3–1.8 × 1.2–1.8 mm, margins emarginate, apex mucronulate, mucro 0.2–0.25 mm. |
Flowers | stamen 1; anthers 0.6–1 mm; styles 0.3–0.5 mm; stigmas 0.3–0.6 mm. |
stamens 2(–3); anthers (0.2–)0.3–0.4 mm, tips of connectives reddish, less than 0.1 mm; styles less than 0.1 mm; stigmas 0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm. |
Achenes | reddish brown, stipitate, ovoid-ellipsoid, 0.8–0.9 × 0.3–0.4 mm, stipe 0.1–0.2 mm, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces reticulate or subtly rugulose. |
brown, slightly stipitate, obovoid, 1.2–1.4(–1.5) × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex apiculate, surfaces puncticulate. |
Cyperus reflexus |
Cyperus microiria |
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Phenology | Fruiting late spring–fall (May–Oct). | Fruiting summer. |
Habitat | Muddy soils or shallow waters | Disturbed soils |
Elevation | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; LA; OK; TX; Mexico; Central America (Costa Rica) |
CT; KY; MA; NJ; NY; OH; PA; e Asia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Cyperus reflexus is recognized by its reddish scales with contrasting greenish or yellow keels and by the laterally 1ribbed scales. The lateral rib is most often situated where the reddish and yellowish parts of the scale meet. Two varieties of C. reflexus, var. reflexus and var. fraternus, have been recognized (M. F. Denton 1978b). Both varieties were noted as intermingled in the North American and South American segments of the widely disjunct range of C. reflexus. Such variation does not seem significant at the varietal level (see G. C. Tucker 1994; G. C. Tucker and R. McVaugh 1993). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The name Cyperus amuricus Maximowicz has been misapplied to C. microiria by some American authors (e.g., M. V. McGivney 1938). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 23. | FNA vol. 23, p. 166. |
Parent taxa | Cyperaceae > Cyperus > subg. Pycnostachys | Cyperaceae > Cyperus > subg. Cyperus |
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Synonyms | C. arenicola, C. fraternus, C. pseudovegetus var. arenicola, C. reflexus var. fraternus | C. iria var. microiria, C. iria var. parviflorus, C. iria var. rectangularis |
Name authority | Vahl: Enum. Pl. 2: 299. (1805) | Steudel: Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 23. (1855) |
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