Details
§ 01- 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.