459.000 Cyperus L.

MARISCUS Vahl

MONANDRUS Vorster

Description of the genus

Perennial, less often annual, herbs, tufted or with rhizomes or stolons, sometimes producing tubers or bulbs. Culms usually triangular. Leaves usually at or near the base of the culm, the culm base sometimes swollen, 3-ranked, linear and grass-like, the lower ones often scale-like. Inflorescence terminal, often a subumbel-like anthela or congested into a dense head; subtended by leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets 1-many-flowered. Glumes distichous. Perianth 0. Stamens 1-3. Stigmas 2-3, if 2, then nutlet dorsally flattened. Fruit a nutlet, usually dorsally flattened.

Worldwide: c. 300 species in warm and tropical countries

Burundi: 65 taxa.

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SpeciesContent
ajax C.B.Clarke
alopecuroides Rottb.Image
amabilis VahlDescription, Image
amauropus Steud.
angolensis BoeckelerDescription, Image
articulatus L.Description, Image
aterrimus Steud.
corymbosus Rottb.
cuspidatus Kunth
cyperoides (L.) KuntzeDescription, Image
denudatus L.f.Description, Image
derreilema Steud.
dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich.
difformis L.Description, Image
digitatus Roxb.
digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük.Description, Image
dilatatus Schumach.
distans L.f.Description, Image
diurensis Boeckeler
dives Delile
dubius Poir. var. macrocephalus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
dubius Rottb. var. dubius Description, Image
esculentus L.Description, Image
ferrugineoviridis (C.B. Clarke) Kük.
fischerianus A. Rich.
foliaceus C.B.Clarke
glaucophyllus Boeckeler
haspan L.
involucratus Rottb.Description, Image
kipasensis Cherm.
laevigatus L.Description, Image
latifolius Poir.
laxus Lam. subsp. buchholzii (Boeckeler) Lye
laxus Lam. subsp. laxus
longus L. [Agg]
luteus Boeck.
maculatus Boeckeler
maderaspatanus Willd.
margaritaceus VahlImage
mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum.Description, Image
nduru Cherm.Description, Image
nigricans Steud.
niveus Retz. [Agg]
niveus Retz. var. tisserantii (Cherm.) K. LyeDescription, Image
niveus Retz. var. leucocephalus (Kunth) FosbergDescription, Image
papyrus L.Description, Image
phillipsiae (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
platycaulis Baker
pustulatus Vahl
reduncus Hochst. ex Boeckeler
renschii Boeck.Description, Image
rigidifolius Steud.
rotundus L.Description, Image
rubicundus Vahl
sphacelatus Rottb.
squarrosus L.Description, Image
tenax Boeckeler
tenuiculmis Boeckeler var. guineensis (Nelmes) S.S.Hooper
tenuiculmis Boeckeler var. schweinfurthianus (Boeckeler) S.S.Hooper
tenuiculmis Boeckeler
tenuispica Steud.
tomaiophyllus K. Schum.
trigonellus Suess.
vestitus Hochst. ex C. Krauss
zollingeri Steud.

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Flora of Botswana: Cyperus
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Flora of Malawi: Cyperus
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Flora of Rwanda: Cyperus
Flora of Zambia: Cyperus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cyperus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cyperus

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iNaturalist: Cyperus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cyperus
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cyperus
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Tropicos: Cyperus
Wikipedia: Cyperus

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