Cyperus erythrorhizos Muhlenberg (Q3247)

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Cyperus erythrorhizos is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Cyperus subg. Juncellus
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Cyperus erythrorhizos Muhlenberg
Cyperus erythrorhizos is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Cyperus subg. Juncellus

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    taxon/id/Cyperus erythrorhizos Muhlenberg
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    Cyperus erythrorhizos Muhlenberg
    Cyperus erythrorhizos
    Muhlenberg
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cyperus erythrorhizos
    souchet à racines rouges (French)
    red-rooted flatsedge (English)
    red-rooted cyperus (English)
    red-rooted nutsedge (English)
    red-rooted umbrella sedge (English)
    Red-rooted flatsedge (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    1 reference
    Tardif, B., B. Tremblay, G. Jolicoeur & J. Labrecque. 2016. Les plantes vasculaires en situation précaire au Québec. CDPNQ, Gouv. Québec, MDDELCC, Direction de l'expertise en biodiversité, Québec, 420 p. http://www.cdpnq.gouv.qc.ca/pdf/plantesVasculairesWeb.pdf
    Mexico (Baja California)
    emergent shorelines
    Herbs, annual, cespitose.
    Culms trigonous to roundly trigonous, (0.5–) 5–25 (–105) cm × 1–2.5 (–7.5) mm, glabrous.
    Leaves flat to inversely W-shaped, 5–25 (–90) cm × 2–5 (–11) mm.
    Inflorescences: spikes 1–3 (–6), rather densely cylindric-ovoid, (4–) 10–30 (–45) × (6–) 10–16 (–23) mm;
    rays 2–6 (–12), 1–8 (–28) cm;
    bracts (3–) 5–7 (–11), horizontal to ascending at 30°, inversely W-shaped, (3–) 10–20 (–70) cm × 1–3 (–12) mm;
    rachilla persistent, at maturity becoming laterally free, remaining firmly attached proximally, wings 0.3 (–0.4) mm wide.
    Spikelets (20–) 40–80, linear, quadrangular, 3–8 (–11) × 1–1.5 mm;
    floral scales deciduous, 6–16 (–30), appressed, laterally light-brown with reddish speckles, medially greenish, laterally ribless, medially 3-ribbed, oblongovate to obovate, quadrangular to subterete, 1.3–1.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm, apex obtuse, mucronulate.
    Flowers: anthers 0.2–0.3 mm, connectives 0.1 mm;
    styles 0.7–0.8 mm;
    Achenes light grayish to brown, sessile, ovoid, (0.4–) 0.7–1 × 0.4–0.6 mm, apex rounded, apiculate, surfaces glabrous.