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Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb, tufted or with a short row of sheathed culm-bases, 0.10-0.52 m high. Leaf blades 2-5 mm wide, flat or V-shaped, flaccid. Culm scapose, 3-angled, 1 mm in diam. Inflorescence of 1 spike, dense, globose to broadly elliptic, up to 15 mm in diam. Subtending bracts 2-5 (usually 3), spreading, later reflexed. Spikelets many, ovate-lanceolate, up to 6.37 mm long, 2-flowered, both flowers bisexual or upper male. Glumes: fertile with keel variably winged, wing up to 1 mm wide, glabrous or ciliate, keel hardly excurrent or excurrent into straight awn up to 0.86 mm long. Flowering time Jan. Nutlet elliptical, golden, later red-brown to black.
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Perennial herb, up to 500 mm high. Rhizome forming a short row or mass of stem bases covered in dark, tough and fibrous leaf sheaths. Flowers: inflorescence a fairly large, subglobose head; bracts usually 3; lower fertile glume apex blunt or scarcely excurrent into a mucro; glumes white or cinnamon-coloured; Oct.-Jan.
Perennial herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves and culms glabrous or minutely scabrid. Bracts usually 3. Lower fertile glume apex blunt or scarcely excurrent into a mucro. Glumes white or cinnamon.
A sedge. It is a herb. It grows 50 cm tall. The rhizome forms a mass of stem bases. The flowers are in a large round head.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system rhizome
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Savannah.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible bulbs roots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Kyllinga alba world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:309772-1
WFO ID wfo-0000453717
COL ID -
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Kyllinga alba Cyperus cartilagineus var. laevissimus Cyperus cristatus var. nigritanus Cyperus nigripes var. grandiceps Kyllinga alba var. laevissima Kyllinga alba var. diminuta Kyllinga alba subsp. alba

Lower taxons

Kyllinga alba var. alata
WorldFloraDB 2024