Note: sometimes placed in Mariscus or in Torulinium

Distribution:  Pantropical

Habitat: Wet shores, ditches, wet mud

Recognition: A large, eye-catching sedge of wet habitats.   Inflorescence rays each with radiating racemes of yellowish spikelets.   These uniquely with a spongy rachilla, this disarticulating and breaking apart into single-achene floating units.  Cyperus strigosus can be similar but has flat (vs. round and disarticulating) spikelets.

Florida status: Probably native