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Taxon:  Cyperus iria L.



Summary
Genus:
Cyperus
Family:
Cyperaceae
Subfamily:
Cyperoideae
Tribe:
Cypereae
Nomen number:
401631
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:45. 1753
Verified:
12/10/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
grasshopper's cyperus –
rice flat sedge –
umbrella sedge –
Portuguese (Brazil)
junça –
junquinho –
tiririca –
três-quinas –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa [Gauteng, Limpopo, North West]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria (n.), Senegal
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman
  • CHINA: China (throughout)
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku], Taiwan
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (throughout), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory]
Pacific
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands
Naturalized
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, New York, West Virginia]
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Sinaloa, Sonora]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
Pacific
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia [Society Islands]
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago
  • MESOAMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Panama
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Economic Uses
Animal food
Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):227. 1999) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA) –


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