Note 6 — MONOCOTYLEDONS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Differs from Cyperus by never being leafless, by disarticulation of (always winged) rhachilla in one piece above the two lowest empty glumes, and by the spikelets which, in Cyperus never less than 5 fld., may here be as little as 1 fld. (although at times up to 20 fld.).