Cyperus microiria Steud.

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Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus

Characteristics

Annuals. Roots fibrous. Culms tufted, 20-60 cm tall, slightly slender, acutely triquetrous, smooth, base several leaved. Leaves shorter than or equaling culm; sheath purplish brown; leaf blade ca. 2.5 mm wide, flat. Involucral bracts 3 or 4(or more), leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescence a compound or decompound anthela; rays 5-9, mostly to 13 cm, unequal in length. Spikes ovoid, broadly ovoid, or subconic, 2-4 × 1-3 cm, with many spikelets. Spikelets slightly laxly arranged, linear to very narrowly linear-ovoid, 0.6-1.5 cm × ca. 1.5 mm, obliquely spreading to spreading, 8-24-flowered; rachilla wings white, narrow, straight, hyaline; successive glumes on rachilla 1-1.5 mm apart. Glumes straw-colored to pale, lax, broadly obovate, ca. 1.5 mm, membranous, 3-5-veined and green, keel abaxially extended beyond apex into a mucro, apex rounded. Stamens 2(or 3); anthers oblong, 0.2-0.4 mm. Style very short; stigmas 3, ± short. Nutlet dark brown, oblong-obovoid, 1.2-1.5 mm, nearly as long as subtending glume, 3-sided, densely prominently puncticulate. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.
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Herbs, annual, cespitose. Culms trigonous, (5–)20–60 cm × (0.2–)0.6–2.4 mm, glabrous. Leaves (1–)3–4, V-shaped, 15–40 cm × 3–6 mm. Inflorescences: spikes 2–5(–8), oblong to ovoid, 2–10 cm × 3–12 mm; rays 4–8, to 11 cm; bracts (4–)5(–7), ascending at 45°, V-shaped, (1.5–)8–30(–50) cm × 1–6 mm; rachilla persistent, wingless (successive floral scales 1.1–1.5 mm apart). Spikelets 10–30, spreading, compressed, linear, 4–20 × 1.5–2.1 mm; floral scales deciduous, (2–)6–26, laterally brown to golden brown, edges clear, medially green, 5-ribbed, outermost ribs more noticeable than others, obovate to nearly orbiculate, 1.3–1.8 × 1.2–1.8 mm, margins emarginate, apex mucronulate, mucro 0.2–0.25 mm. Flowers: stamens 2(–3); anthers (0.2–)0.3–0.4 mm, tips of connectives reddish, less than 0.1 mm; styles less than 0.1 mm; stigmas 0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm. Achenes brown, slightly stipitate, obovoid, 1.2–1.4(–1.5) × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex apiculate, surfaces puncticulate.
Much like no. 9 [Cyperus iria L.]; spikes 2–4 cm; rachilla narrowly winged; scales truncate, with an evident green mucro to 0.4 mm. Native to e. Asia, intro. on L.I. and in e. Pa. (C. amuricus, at least as applied to our plants)
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.6
Root system fibrous-root
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OctNovDec
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Photosynthetic pathway c4

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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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

Leaf

Cyperus microiria leaf picture by Kenneth Parker (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cyperus microiria world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305180-1
WFO ID wfo-0000377767
COL ID 33CTT
BDTFX ID 77706
INPN ID 161522
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Synonyms

Cyperus microiria Cyperus parviflorus Cyperus rectangularis Cyperus textorii Cyperus amuricus var. textorii Cyperus iria var. parviflorus Cyperus iria var. rectangularis