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

Zambia: 69 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
absconditicoronatus Bauters, Reyn-ders & Goetgh.WNw
albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
albostriatus Schrad.Description, Image
alopecuroides Rottb.Image
altochrysocephalus Lye[DD]
amabilis VahlB,N,W,C,E,SNw,Lp,E,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
amauropus Steud.
angolensis BoeckelerB,C,E,SNw,Mc,C,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
articulatus L.B,N,W,C,SNw,N,C,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
aureo-brunneus C.B.ClarkeNLp,N,McImage
clavinux C.B. ClarkeE,S
compressus L.BWDescription, Image
congestus VahlN
cuspidatus KunthLp,S
cyperoides (L.) KuntzeN,CC,LkDescription, Image
deciduus BoeckelerNw,N,C,Lk,W
denudatus L.f. var. denudatus N,W,C,E,SNw,Lp,N,Mc,E,C,Lk,SDescription, Image
derreilema Steud.
dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich.Nw
difformis L.N,E,SMc,E,SDescription, Image
digitatus Roxb. var. digitatus Image
digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük.B,N,C,SN,C,Lk,WDescription, Image
distans L.f.N,W,C,SCb,Lp,N,Lk,SDescription, Image
dives DelileS
dubius Rottb.B,C,SLk,S,WDescription, Image
esculentus L.N,W,C,SN,C,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
fulgens sensu Vorster ms.C,S
haspan L.
imbricatus Retz.B,N,C,SC,SDescription, Image
involucratus Rottb.CCDescription, Image
kasamensis Podlech[DD]
laevigatus L.E,SE,SDescription, Image
latifolius Poir.Nw,N
laxus Lam. subsp. sylvestris (Ridl.) LyeN,W,C,SNw,Lp,N,Lk,SDescription, Image
longus L. var. tenuiflorus (Rottb.) Kük.B,E,SE,S,WDescription, Image
longus L. var. longus SS
maculatus BoeckelerNw,Cb
mapanioides C.B. ClarkeWNw,CbDescription, Image
margaritaceus VahlNw,Cb,C,Lk,S,WImage
matagoroensis Muasya & D.A. Simpson[NrEnd]N,EDescription, Image
mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum.SSDescription, Image
mwinilungensis PodlechN,C,SN,Mc,C,Lk,SDescription, Image
nduru Cherm.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
niveus Retz. var. leucocephalus (Kunth) FosbergN,C,E,SMc,E,Lk,SDescription, Image
niveus Retz. var. tisserantii (Cherm.) K. LyeNMcDescription, Image
papyrus L.B,NLp,WDescription, Image
pectinatus VahlB,N,C,SLp,N,Mc,C,S,WDescription, Image
pluribracteatus (Kük.) GovaertsDescription, Image
procerus Rottb.Image
pseudoleptocladus Kük.Lp,S
pseudovestitus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.C,S
pubens Kük.N,W,C,SNw,N,C,Lk,SDescription, Image
pulchellus R. Br.SMc,SDescription, Image
pygmaeus Rottb.Mc
renschii Boeck.NNDescription, Image
rhynchosporoides Kuekenth.B,WNw,WImage
robinsonii Podl.[DD]
rotundus L.N,SSDescription, Image
rupestris KunthMc,S
schinzii Boeckeler
squarrosus L.C,SLk,SDescription, Image
tenax BoeckelerNw,N,C,Lk,S,W
tenuiculmis BoeckelerNw,Lp,C,Lk,S
tenuispica Steud.S,W
turrillii Kük.B,C,SC,S,WDescription, Image
usitatus Burch. subsp. palmatus LyeS
usitatus Burch. subsp. usitatus var. macrobulbus Kük.S
zambesiensis C.B.Clarke[DD]Description
zollingeri Steud.Lp,N

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Cyperus.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=267, retrieved 19 March 2024

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