Compilation
Cyperus meeboldii

Rather slender perennial with swollen stem-base covered by fibrous remains of old sheaths; root-system much reduced; stems 4–20 cm long and 0.4–1 mm thick, triangular, glabrous or slightly scabrid, swollen at the base. Leaf-blades 3–12 cm long and 0.5–2 mm wide, flat or inrolled, slightly scabrid on margin; sheaths grey to light brown, the oldest disintegrating into blackish fibres. Inflorescence a congested anthela with numerous sessile spikelets; major involucral bract leafy, 4–10 cm long and 1–4 mm wide, much longer than the inflorescence; anthela 0.7–2 cm in diam., consisting of 15–60 crowded spikelets. Spikelets 4–10 x 1–2 mm (or to 2.5 mm wide with glumes spreading), light to dark brown, linear, 15–30-flowered. Glumes 1.3–1.5 x c. 0.5 mm, ovate, reddish brown with 3-nerved midrib which ends in the slightly recurved apex. Stamen usually 1. Style unbranched or with 3 branches. Nutlet 0.5–0.6 x 0.3–0.4 mm, pear-shaped, triangular, grey, minutely papillose.