Cyperus maculatus Boeckeler

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus

Characteristics

A slender to robust, perennial herb, up to 0.7 m high. Spikelets densely flowered, 8-40 x 1.0-1.5 mm. linear-lanceolate with an acute tip, straight or curved. Glumes 2.2-3.0 mm long, reddish brown with a wide, uncoloured marginal border.
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A sedge. It is a herb that keeps growing from year to year. It has hard round tubers and underground stems or rhizomes. The stalks rise from the tubers.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.7
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Sandy places near to water, in salty land and marshes, and in flood-plains. Abundant and common throughout its range, its forms dense meadows in waterlogged sand banks.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in sandy areas near water. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-9
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The rhizomes and culms are cooked and eaten.
Uses animal food food material medicinal
Edible rhizomes roots stems tubers
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 25 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Cyperus maculatus world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Republic, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Seychelles, Chad, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Cyperus maculatus threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305095-1
WFO ID wfo-0000377449
COL ID 33CR2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Cyperus vulgaris Cyperus maculatus Cyperus longus var. maculatus Cyperus maculatus var. naumannianus

Lower taxons

Cyperus maculatus subsp. maculatus Cyperus maculatus subsp. ogadensis