Cyperus pangorei Rottb.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus

Characteristics

Perennials. Rhizomes short, creeping. Culms 50-90 cm tall, stout, obtusely 3-angled, smooth. Leaves basally with a brown long sheath, apically bladeless or with a short blade. Involucral bracts 3-5, leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescence a decompound or compound anthela; rays 5-7, to 5 cm, unequal, each with 3-8 raylets. Spikes broadly ovoid, 1-2 × 1-2 cm, with 4-15 spikelets. Spikelets ± laxly arranged, linear, 8-20 × ca. 1.5 mm, slightly compressed, obliquely spreading, 6-30-flowered; rachilla wings reddish brown, linear-oblong. Glumes reddish brown on both surfaces but middle green, lax, oblong, 2-3 mm, papery, 3-5-veined, not keeled, margin slightly revolute at maturity, apex obtuse to rounded. Stamens 3; anthers linear; connective prominent beyond anther, apex sometimes setiferous. Style of medium length; stigmas 3. Nutlet dark brown, obovoid-oblong, ca. 1/2 as long as subtending glume, 3-sided, densely puncticulate. Fl. and fr. Nov-Jan. 2n = 208.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 0.8
Root system rhizome
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Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

River margins, water margins, wet places, marshes, stream beds, often found standing in water and in rice fields; at elevations from near sea level to 400 metres in southern China.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal
Edible stems
Therapeutic use Atrophy (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Cachexia (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 25 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Cyperus pangorei world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines

Conservation status

Cyperus pangorei threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:133964-3
WFO ID wfo-0000379015
COL ID 6BW3M
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cyperus tegetum Cyperus dehiscens Cyperus pangorei Papyrus corymbosus Papyrus dehiscens Cyperus pangorei var. ambiguus

Lower taxons

Cyperus pangorei var. ambiguus