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Cyperus fastigiatus Rottb.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus

Characteristics

Perennial herb, robust, tufted, 0.6-2.6 m high. Leaf blades 6-8 mm wide, flat. Culm scapose, obscurely 3-angled, 3-7 mm in diam. at middle. Inflorescence a ± compact, compound anthela, 70-150 mm in diam. Subtending bracts 3 or 4, suberect, leaf-like. Spikelets hardly spreading from axis, suberect, linear, 8-13(-23) x 1 mm, 8-20-flowered. Glumes closely imbricate, lanceolate, ± 3 mm long, keel excurrent into small point. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Nutlet oblong-elliptical, ± 1.8 mm long, 3-angled, greyish, surface minutely reticulate to smooth.
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Perennial herb, up to 2.6 m high; robust, without elongate stolons. Leaf blades developed. Flowers: inflorescence anthelate; spikelets spicate on rays, often suberect; glumes and nutlets abscising individually leaving a persistent rachilla, wings of rachilla golden-brown, spirally twisted, persistent for a short while after glumes and nutlets have fallen; glumes many per spikelet, reddish brown; Oct.-Mar.
A robust, waterside, perennial herb, up to 1.2 m high. Wings of rhachilla golden brown, spirally twisted, persistent for a short while after glumes and fruit has fallen. Spikelets often suberect. Glumes reddish brown.
Stout perennial to 1.2 m. Spikelets reddish to golden-brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.2 - 2.6
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Rope (unspecified), Stitch (unspecified), Pain (unspecified), Fumitory (unspecified), Mat (unspecified), Side (unspecified), Thatch (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Cyperus fastigiatus world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:131701-3
WFO ID wfo-0000373154
COL ID 33C7F
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cyperus egregius Cyperus flabellaris Cyperus semiangulatus Cyperus fastigiatus Cyperus fastigiosus
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