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Taxon:  Cyperus rotundus L.



Summary
Genus:
Cyperus
Family:
Cyperaceae
Subfamily:
Cyperoideae
Tribe:
Cypereae
Nomen number:
316644
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:45. 1753
Verified:
12/09/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
coco-grass –
ground-almond –
Java-grass –
nut sedge –
nut-grass –
purple nut sedge –
purple nut-grass –
red nut sedge –
Arabic
sa'ed –
French
souchet rond –
German
knolliges Zypergras –
Portuguese (Brazil)
alho-bravo –
capim-alho –
capim-dandá –
tiririca –
tiririca-vermelha –
Spanish
castañuela –
cipero –
coquito –
juncia real –
Swedish
nötag –
Transcribed Chinese
suo cao –
xiang fu zi –
Transcribed Korean
hyangbuja –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • MACARONESIA: Cabo Verde, Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Azores, Madeira Islands]
  • MIDDLE ATLANTIC OCEAN: St. Helena
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Yemen [Socotra]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Zaire
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan
  • CHINA: China [Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan, Hebei, Gansu, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Xinjiang]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku], Taiwan
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt [Sinai], Iran, Iraq, ******, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
  • NORTH INDIAN OCEAN: India [Andaman and Nicobar]
Europe
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Switzerland
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Pacific
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Outlying Islands [Wake Island]
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory]
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Missouri]
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, French Polynesia [Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago]
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, Niue, Tonga
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • CARIBBEAN: Hispaniola, Aruba, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  • MESOAMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Other (native status in New World uncertain)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
erosion control (fide Noxweed Aust) –
Harmful organism host
crop pests (fide Noxweed Aust) –
Human food
vegetable (famine food fide Use Pl WT Afr) –
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_60.html,) –
Medicines
folklore (fide F Ceylon; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):228. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Tucker, Syst Bot M 1994; Weed CIBA) –


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