459.000 Cyperus
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 Zimbabwe: 88 taxa. |
 |
Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. | C,E | |
| albostriatus Schrad. | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| alopecuroides Rottb. | C,S | Image |
| amabilis Vahl | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| amauropus Steud. | N,W,C,E | |
| angolensis Boeckeler | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| articulatus L. | N,W,E,S | Description, Image |
| breviradius sensu Vorster ms. | N,W,C,E,S | |
| chersinus (N.E.Br.) Kük. | W,S | |
| clavinux C.B. Clarke | N,W,C | |
| colymbetes Kotschy & Peyr. | N | |
| compressus L. | W,E,S | Description, Image |
| congestus Vahl | N,W,C,E | |
| cuspidatus Kunth | N,W,C,E,S | |
| cyperoides (L.) Kuntze | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| deciduus Boeckeler | N,W,C,E | |
| denudatus L.f. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich. | N,W,E | |
| difformis L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| distans L.f. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| diurensis Boeckeler | N,W,C | |
| dives Delile | N | |
| dubius Rottb. var. dubius | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| esculentus L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| ferrugineoviridis (C.B. Clarke) Kük. | E | |
| fulgens sensu Vorster ms. | N,W,E,S | |
| glaucophyllus Boeckeler | E | |
| hamulosus M. Bieb. | W | |
| haspan L. | ||
| hemisphaericus Boeckeler | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| hirtellus (Chiov.) Kük. | ||
| imbricatus Retz. | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| involucratus Rottb. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| iria L. | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| kirkii C.B. Clarke | W,C,E,S | |
| laevigatus L. | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| laxus Lam. subsp. sylvestris (Ridl.) Lye | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| leptocladus Kunth | N,W,C,E | |
| longicarpus sensu Vorster ms. | N,W,C | |
| longispicula Muasya & D.A. Simpson [NrEnd] | E | |
| longus L. var. tenuiflorus (Rottb.) Kük. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| maculatus Boeckeler | N,W,C,E,S | |
| margaritaceus Vahl | N,W,C,S | Image |
| mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum. | N | Description, Image |
| nduru Cherm. | ? | Description, Image |
| nyassensis (Podlech) Lye | E | |
| obtusiflorus Vahl var. obtusiflorus | N,W,C,E,S | Image |
| obtusiflorus Vahl var. flavissimus Boeck. | C,E,S | Description, Image |
| papyrus L. | W | Description, Image |
| pectinatus Vahl | N | Description, Image |
| platycaulis Baker | ||
| procerus Rottb. | N,W | Image |
| pseudoleptocladus Kük. | E | |
| pseudovestitus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. | N,W,C,E | |
| pubens Kük. | N,C | Description, Image |
| pulchellus R. Br. | N | Description, Image |
| pygmaeus Rottb. | N,S | |
| rigidifolius Steud. | E | |
| rotundus L. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| rupestris Kunth | N,W,C,E,S | |
| schinzii Boeckeler | N,W,C,E,S | |
| semitrifidus Schrad. | W,E,S | |
| solidus Kunth | C,E | |
| sp. (ex Mariscus sp.no.1) (Brain 8449) | C | |
| sp. (ex Mariscus sp.no.2) (P.A. Colville 52) | C | |
| sp. no. 1 (Eyles 4636) | C | |
| sp.no.10 (Jacobsen 649) | W,E | |
| sp.no.2 (Drummond 5105) | E | |
| sp.no.3 (Armitage 6555) | E | |
| sp.no.4 (Phipps 1435) | N | |
| sp.no.5 (Rattray 1273) | S | |
| sp.no.6 (Magadza 27) | N,S | |
| sp.no.7 (Bingham 505) | N,W,C | |
| sp.no.8 (Brain 3732) | W,C | |
| sp.no.9 (Boughey 2934) | S | |
| sphacelatus Rottb. | E | |
| sphaerospermus Schrad. | N,W,C,E,S | |
| spiralis Larridon | ||
| squarrosus L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| tenax Boeckeler | N,W,C,E,S | |
| tenuispica Steud. | N,W,C,E,S | |
| trigonellus Suess. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| turrillii Kük. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| usitatus Burch. subsp. palmatus Lye | W | |
| usitatus Burch. subsp. usitatus var. macrobulbus Kük. | W | |
| vestitus Hochst. ex C. Krauss | W | |
| zollingeri Steud. | N,W,E |
Other sources of information about Cyperus:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: CyperusFlora of Burundi: Cyperus
Flora of Caprivi: Cyperus
Flora of Malawi: Cyperus
Flora of Mozambique: Cyperus
Flora of Rwanda: Cyperus
Flora of Zambia: Cyperus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cyperus
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CyperusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cyperus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cyperus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cyperus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cyperus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cyperus
JSTOR Plant Science: Cyperus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cyperus
Plants of the World Online: Cyperus
Tropicos: Cyperus
Wikipedia: Cyperus