Compilation
Cyperus recurvispicatus

Tussocky perennial with a short woody rhizome and crowded stems; roots with tomentum; stems 10–15 cm long and 1–2.5 mm thick, somewhat compressed to terete or obscurely angular, glabrous, with leaves from the lower 1–3 cm only. Leaf-sheaths medium reddish brown, thick and coriaceous with many nerves and very prominent wide white membranous margins; leaf-blades to c. 20 cm long and 1.5–2 mm wide, flat but very thick, minutely scabrid along margin, often curled or coiled at apex. Inflorescence a lax anthela to 8 x 6 cm consisting of 1 sessile or subsessile group of spikelets and 1–4 stalked digitate groups of spikelets, each group consisting of 3–10 spreading and reflexed spikelets; involucral bracts short or to 20 cm long, spreading, leaf-like; peduncles to 4 cm long and 0.7 mm thick, terete. Spikelets 8–15 x 1–1.5 mm, linear, terete with acute apex, 12–16-flowered, at maturity disarticulating as 1 unit. Glumes c. 3.5 mm long, ovate, variegated golden and reddish brown with pale margin and patches, with 3–4 distinct lateral nerves on each side of the green midrib that is excurrent into a c. 0.2 mm long straight mucro. Style c. 4 mm long with 3 branches. Stamens 3. Nutlet 1.1–1.3 mm long, obtusely triangular, light reddish brown.