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

Zimbabwe: 89 taxa.

Cyperus angolensis

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.C,E
albostriatus Schrad.W,C,E,SDescription, Image
alopecuroides Rottb.C,SImage
amabilis VahlN,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
amauropus Steud.N,W,C,E
angolensis BoeckelerN,C,EDescription, Image
articulatus L.N,W,E,SDescription, Image
breviradius sensu Vorster ms.N,W,C,E,S
chersinus (N.E.Br.) Kük.W,S
clavinux C.B. ClarkeN,W,C
colymbetes Kotschy & Peyr.N
compressus L.W,E,SDescription, Image
congestus VahlN,W,C,E
cuspidatus KunthN,W,C,E,S
cyperoides (L.) KuntzeN,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
deciduus BoeckelerN,W,C,E
denudatus L.f. var. denudatus N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich.N,W,E
difformis L.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
distans L.f.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
diurensis BoeckelerN,W,C
dives DelileN
dubius Rottb.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
esculentus L.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
ferrugineoviridis (C.B. Clarke) Kük.E
fulgens sensu Vorster ms.N,W,E,S
glaucophyllus BoeckelerE
hamulosus M. Bieb.W
haspan L.
hemisphaericus BoeckelerN,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
hirtellus (Chiov.) Kük.
imbricatus Retz.N,W,SDescription, Image
involucratus Rottb.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
iria L.N,E,SDescription, Image
kirkii C.B. ClarkeW,C,E,S
laevigatus L.N,W,SDescription, Image
laxus Lam. subsp. sylvestris (Ridl.) LyeN,W,CDescription, Image
leptocladus KunthN,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,SDescription, Image
maculatus BoeckelerN,W,C,E,S
margaritaceus VahlN,W,C,SImage
mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum.NDescription, Image
nduru Cherm.?Description, Image
nyassensis (Podlech) LyeE
obtusiflorus Vahl var. obtusiflorus N,W,C,E,SImage
obtusiflorus Vahl var. flavissimus Boeck.C,E,SDescription, Image
papyrus L.WDescription, Image
pectinatus VahlNDescription, Image
platycaulis Baker
pluribracteatus (Kük.) GovaertsN,W,C,EDescription, Image
procerus Rottb.N,WImage
pseudoleptocladus Kük.E
pseudovestitus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.N,W,C,E
pubens Kük.N,CDescription, Image
pulchellus R. Br.NDescription, Image
pygmaeus Rottb.N,S
rigidifolius Steud.E
rotundus L.N,W,C,SDescription, Image
rupestris KunthN,W,C,E,S
schinzii BoeckelerN,W,C,E,S
semitrifidus Schrad.W,E,S
solidus KunthC,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,SDescription, Image
tenax BoeckelerN,W,C,E,S
tenuispica Steud.N,W,C,E,S
trigonellus Suess.C,E,S
turrillii Kük.N,W,C,SDescription, Image
usitatus Burch. subsp. palmatus LyeW
usitatus Burch. subsp. usitatus var. macrobulbus Kük.W
vestitus Hochst. ex C. KraussW
zollingeri Steud.N,W,E

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Cyperus.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=267, retrieved 1 December 2024

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