Trees & Plants

Sharp Cyperus

Hai

Cyperus javanicus Houtt.

Occasional in open areas and along the sides of marshy areas. No known uses

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uses: No known uses
family: Cyperaceae
synonym: Cyperus canescens Vahl, Cyperus anomalus Steud.
description: Erect, tufted perennials with short rhizome; culms 40-85 cm tall, obtusely trigonous, glaucous-green. Leaves × many, 45-100 0.5-1.3 cm, linear, gradually acuminate, scabrid on margins and midrib, coriaceous; sheaths, basal ones dark brown. × Inflorescence large, compound, 7-15 8-20 cm; primary rays 6-12; leafy bracts 5-7, the lower ones much exceeding the corymb, the longest upto 70 cm long. Spikelets densely spicate, straw-coloured. Glumes distichous, broadly ovate, apex acute, subcoriaceous, keel greenish, pale brown, basal 2 glumes empty. × Stamens 3. Stigmas 3. Nut 1-1.5 0.5-1 mm, obovate, trigonous, black-brown.
native range: Tropical Pacific, Africa, Asia and Hawaii (USA)
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Sharp Cyperus · Java sedge
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Occasional in open areas and along the sides of marshy areas.