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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus metzii   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Kyllinga squamulata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cyperus metzii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Kyllinga squamulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)

Kyllinga squamulata

 

COMMON NAME:
Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge


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image of Cyperus metzii, Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge

JK Marlow    jkm180926_5006

September    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

Inflorescences of former Kyliinga spp. are unbranched (the spikes sessile), per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Cyperus metzii, Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge

JK Marlow    jkm180926_5010

September    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

Plants cespitose, not rhizomatous, per Flora of North America.

image of Cyperus metzii, Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge

JK Marlow    jkm180926_5019

September    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

The solitary spike is subglobose, 6-10mm in diameter, per Flora of North America.

image of Cyperus metzii, Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge

JK Marlow    jkm180926_5022

September    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

3-4 leaflike involucral bracts, horizontal to slightly reflexed, flat, 1-6cm, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus metzii   FAMILY Cyperaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Kyllinga squamulata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cyperus metzii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Kyllinga squamulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Kyllinga squamulata

 

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3968

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Lawns, turf farms, athletic fields, golf courses, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Asia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], not rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer
Heads straw-colored, greenish, tan & green
Bracts 3-4, to 6cm long
(1)2 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual or staminate

Inflorescences unbranched (the spikes sessile)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Spikelet with one nutlet enclosed by two scales

 

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