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Taxon:  Cyperus longus L.



Summary
Genus:
Cyperus
Family:
Cyperaceae
Subfamily:
Cyperoideae
Tribe:
Cypereae
Nomen number:
402812
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
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cyperus fenzelianus Steud.
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
  3. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  4. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cyperus+longus&quantity=1
  6. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003
  7. Ghazanfar, S. A. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992
  8. Govaerts, R. & D. A. Simpson. World checklist of Cyperaceae, sedges. 2007 http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
  9. Haines, R. W. & K. A. Lye. Sedges and rushes of East Africa. 1983
  10. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  11. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
  12. Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. 2004 http://www.gobcan.es/cmayot/interreg/atlantico/documentos/LESDCanarias.pdf
  13. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972 Note: mentions
  14. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  15. Migahid, A. M. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 2. 1978
  16. Molina G., A. M. 2011. Review of Cyperaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e-mail on 31 Mar.
  17. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  18. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  19. Silva, L. et al. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). 2005 http://www.azores.gov.pt/NR/rdonlyres/3E255F0D-6AFD-4EF8-974D-CF920B5F933E/126780/42_Pteridophyta_Spermatophyta1.pdf
  20. Simpson, D. A. & C. A. Inglis. 2001. Cyperaceae of economic, ethnobotanical and horticultural importance: a checklist. Kew Bull. 56:298-299.
  21. Skvortsov, A. K., ed. Flora of the Lower Volga region. 2006-
  22. Thulin, M., ed. Flora of Somalia. 1993-
  23. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
  24. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  25. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997 Note: mentions
  26. Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. Flora palaestina. 1966-
Common names
English
galingale –
sweet cyperus –
sweet galingale –
French
souchet odorant –
German
hohes Zypergras –
langes Zypergras –
Portuguese
albafor –
Spanish
juncia –
juncia larga –
juncia loca –
juncia olorosa –
Swedish
dammag –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • MACARONESIA: Cabo Verde, Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, ******, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.), Nepal, Pakistan
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation [Astrakhan], Ukraine [Krym]
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Portugal [Azores]
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide Kew Bull 56:298-299. 2001) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kew Bull 56:298-299. 2001) –
Weed
(fide Weed CIBA) –


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