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Cyperus capensis Endl.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus

Characteristics

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.2-1.0 m high, base pseudobulbous. Leaf blades 1.7-3.4 mm wide, V-shaped. Culm scapose, obscurely 3-angled, 0.6-1.9 mm in diam. Inflorescence a single, terminal head of 3-5 barely discernable spikes, 12-18 x 12-16 mm in diam. Subtending bracts 4-6, leaf-like. Spikelets narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 3.0-4.2 x 0.8-1.3 mm, 1-flowered. Glumes ovate when flattened, 3.1-4.2 mm long. Flowering time Dec., Jan. (Apr.). Nutlet narrowly elliptical, 1.5-2.7 x 0.8-1.0 mm, 3-angled, reddish brown, surface minutely reticulate.
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Perennial herb, up to 1 m high; tufted, base a narrowly ovate pseudo-bulb. Flowers: inflorescence with spikes confluent into a single head; spikelets not conspicuously pointed, greenish, olive-green or straw-coloured, abscising as entire units, except for basal sterile glumes; glumes few per spikelet, 3.1-4.2 mm long; Dec.-Mar.
Small, tufted, perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Inflorescence multifid, capitate with 1-flowered spikelets. Spikelets not conspicuously pointed. Anthers 0.7-1.4 mm long. Glumes 3,l-4,2 mm long, straw-coloured.
A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 20-60 cm tall. It has a narrow oval bulb like root. The flowers are in a spike like head. These are green.
Perennial to 20 cm. Spikelets green.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.8
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on grassy slopes.
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

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Edible roots
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 25 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Cyperus capensis world distribution map, present in Mozambique, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:304041-1
WFO ID wfo-0000369253
COL ID 33BTS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Kyllinga capensis Cyperus capensis Cyperus capensis f. globospica Mariscus capensis Cyperus capensis var. pseudomarlothii Mariscus marlothii var. globospica
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