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Shingle Flatsedge

Cyperus imbricatus Retz.

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The description is primarily based on five specimens from India.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Description

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Perennial, 30-60 cm. Rhizome short, ascending or horizontal, with tillers. Stem 2-3 mm diam., trigonous, smooth, lower edges obtuse. Leaves shorter than or equalling stem; sheaths to 20 cm, soft, brown or dark brown, often reddish, mouth margin slightly concave; blades to c. 40 cm long, to 5.5 mm wide, flat or folded, keeled, margins narrowly recurved, margins and keel towards apex scabrous, apex trigonous, acute, scabrous. Inflorescence 5-15 cm, a conical or rounded anthelodium; 4 or 5 lowermost bracts leaf-like, to more than 40 cm; primary branches commonly 5-8, to 80 mm, tubular prophyll c. 10 mm, bi-nerved; secondary anthelodia to c. 40 mm, of 5-8 spreading clusters of spikes; sometimes small tertiary anthelodia by 2-3 clusters of spikes, c. 7 mm; cluster of spikes 10-35 x 3-8 mm, with c. 20 to over 100 spikes closely imbricating, spirally, some at cluster base often digitately arranged; cluster rachis reddish brown, angular, narrowly winged; spikes not reflexed, 4-8 x c. 1.5 mm, glume-like bract, c. 0.8 mm, bi-nerved glume-like prophyll, c. 0.6 mm, rachis c. 0.3 mm wide, flat, quadrangular, internodes c. 0.25 mm; glumes c. 1.5 mm, cymbiform, slightly keeled, mucronate, sides obscurely nerved, reddish brown, margins widely scarious, sligthly inrolled. Nut 0.6 x 0.3 mm, ellipsoid, obtusely trigonous, yellowish brown, very finely reticulate, almost smooth.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Distribution

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Cosmopolitan.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Distribution

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Distribution: Pantropical.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. Per.: June.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Habitat

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Alluvial marshes.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Synonym

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Cyperus radiatus Vahl, Enum. Pl. 2: 369. 1805; Kükenthal, in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.20, 101: fig. 9, G-J. 1935.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 206: 100 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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eFloras