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Cyperus rotundus

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Cyperus rotundus is a plant of the GRAMINEAE family, consisting of stems that are tuberous at the base, rising singly from a creeping, underground root-stock, about 10 to 25 cm tall. Leaves are linear, broadly grooved on the upper surface, and dark green in color. Flowers are in rather small inflorescence with 2–4 bracts. The longest bracts are usually longer than the inflorescence, but some are shorter. The inflorescence consists of a few slender branches, with the longest usually not more than about 7.5-cm spikes, consisting of about 2–10 spikelets. Each spikelet is narrow and flattened; glumes rather narrow, blunt, closely overlapping with 3 stamens, 3-branched. The nut is oblong-ovate, nearly half as long as the glume, strongly 3-angled, yellow, black when ripe.

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