Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Abildaardia monostachya (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 296: 1805
Cyperus monostachyos L. Mant. 180. 1771. Fimbristylis monostachya Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 61. 1848.
Culms slender, tufted, 2-4 dm. high; leaves setaceous, 0.5 mm. wide, half as high as the culms; involucral bract shorter than the spikelet; spikelet ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm. long, many-flowered, the lower scales readily deciduous ; scales greenish-white, strongly keeled ; style with 3 short branches ; achenes 2-2.5 mm. long, yellowish-white, verrucose, prominently stalked.
Type locality : India.
Distribution : Wet grassy places : Florida and Mexico to Argentina ; Old World tropics.
- citação bibliográfica
- Henry Knut Svenson. 1957. (POALES); (CYPERACEAE); SCIRPEAE (CONTINUATIO). North American flora. vol 18(9). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
