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Cyperus L.

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Cyperus L., Sp. Pl. 44 (1753)
Cyperus L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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L.
L.
1753
44
ICN
Cyperus L.
genus
Cyperus

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Cyperus

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Cyperus L.

Annual, or perennial, often rhizomatous herbs. Stems leafy at base or leaves reduced to basal sheaths. Inflorescence umbellate or capitate, surrounded by 1-several leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets compressed or subterete, 1-many-flowered, usually clustered in spikes at tips of rays or in a sessile spike. Flowers hermaphrodite. Glumes distichous, usually all fertile. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 2-3, or 1. Style 2-3-fid, continuous with ovary, not thickened at base. Nut trigonous or biconvex. A tropical and warm temperate genus of c. 550 spp., one endemic in N.Z.; 13 adventive.

Cyperus L.

Infl. a terminal umbel-like corymb or reduced to a single head or spikelets. Spikelets compressed or subterete, 1-∞-fld; fls hermaphrodite or the terminal 1–3 occ. male. Glumes distichous. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 2–3, or 1. Style 2–3-fid, continuous with ovary, not thickened at base. Nut triquetrous or plano-convex. Annual or perennial, often rhizomatous herbs. Stems lfy at base, or lvs reduced to sheaths. A tropical and warm temperate genus of c. 550 spp.; the N.Z. sp. endemic.

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Cyperus L.
Australia
Western Australia
Cyperus L.
China
Cyperus L.
French Polynesia
Cyperus L.
Nepal
Cyperus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cyperus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cyperus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Cyperus L.
Niue
Cyperus L.
Tonga
Cyperus L.
United States
Cyperus L.
Vanuatu

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d07d84cc-dee9-41c5-87b8-92e3bf272ea6
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 January 2008
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