Bentawn Flatsedge

(Cyperus reflexus)

galery

Description

Slender perennial with short thick rhizome. Culms trigonous, smooth, 20�50 cm high, 1�2.5 mm diam.Leaves scarcely septate-nodulose, shorter than culms, 1�2 mm wide. Inflorescence simple or compound with 4�8 branches to 4 cm long or head-like; digitate clusters 10�15 mm diam.; involucral bracts leaf-like, 3 or 4 exceeding the inflorescence. Spikelets flattened, numerous per cluster, 4�12 mm long, 0.8�2.5 mm wide in side view, 10�24-flowered; rachilla not winged, persistent. Glumes with 3-nerved midrib, 1.5�2 mm long, dark red-brown. Stamen 1. Style 3-fid.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Poales
Family:Cyperaceae
Genus:Cyperus
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