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|accepted_name=Cyperus granitophilus
|accepted_authority=McVaugh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Castanea
|place=2: 103, figs. 4–8. 1937
|year=1937
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Cyperus;Cyperus granitophilus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cyperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cyperus subg. Cyperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus granitophilus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 145, 166
|treatment_page=page 165
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, cespitose, with roots fibrous. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> V-shaped to flat, (2–)4–11 cm × 3–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: rays absent; bracts 2–4, ± horizontal, flat, 1–6.5 cm × 2–3 mm; rachilla persistent, wingless. <b>Spikelets</b> 10–40, compressed, ovoid to linear-lanceoloid, quadrangular, 5–9 × 2–3 mm; floral scales deciduous, 5–20, spreading, pale greenish to reddish brown, laterally (5–)7–9(–13)-ribbed, ovate, 3–4 × 1–2 mm, apex straight, excurved mucronate, or cuspidate. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 1–2; filaments 1.5 mm; anthers 0.8–1 mm, connective apex reddish yellow, less than 0.1 mm; styles 0.8–1 mm; stigmas 1–1.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown to reddish brown, broadly ellipsoid to obovoid, 0.8–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm, base ± cuneate, apex truncate-obtuse, surfaces puncticulate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Thin soil over outcrops of granite or sandstone of the Piedmont and inner coastal plain
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus granitophilus</i> is documented as an autotetraploid derivative of <i>C. squarrosus</i> (L. W. Garoni and W. H. Murdy 1964).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=garoni1964a
|text=Garoni, L. W. and W. H. Murdy. 1964. Systematic relationship of the granite outcrop endemic C. granitophilus McVaugh to C. inflexus Muhl. A. S. B. Bull. 11: 43.
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name=Cyperus granitophilus
|author=
|authority=McVaugh
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Thin soil over outcrops of granite or sandstone of the Piedmont and inner coastal plain
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=garoni1964a
|publication title=Castanea
|publication year=1937
|special status=
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Cyperus
|species=Cyperus granitophilus
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