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Genus: Cyperus

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Monocotyledons >  Order: Poales >  Family: Cyperaceae

About 550 species (nearly cosmopolitan), with 86 species indigenous to southern Africa and one naturalised.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

List from Archer (2003).

Cyperus albostriatus

 

Cyperus alopecuroides

 

Cyperus amabilis

 

Cyperus angolensis

 

Cyperus articulatus

 

Cyperus bellus

 

Cyperus brevis

 

Cyperus capensis

 

Cyperus chersinus

 

Cyperus clavinux

 

Cyperus compressus

 

Cyperus congestus

 

Cyperus crassipes

 

Cyperus cuspidatus

 

Cyperus cyperoides

 

Cyperus deciduus

 

Cyperus denudatus

 

Cyperus dichroostchyus

 

Cyperus difformis

 

Cyperus digitatus

 

Cyperus distans

 

Cyperus dives

 

Cyperus dubius

 

Cyperus durus

 

Cyperus elephantinus

 

Cyperus esculentus (Yellow nutsedge)

Cyperus esculentus

Cyperus fastigiatus

 

Cyperus fulgens

 

Cyperus fuscescens

 

Cyperus haematocephalus

 

Cyperus hamulosus

 

Cyperus imbricatus

 

Cyperus indecorus

 

Cyperus involucratus

 

Cyperus iria

 

Cyperus keniensis

 

Cyperus kirkii

 

Cyperus laevigatus

 

Cyperus latifolius

 

Cyperus leptocladus

 

Cyperus longus

 

Cyperus macrocarpus

 

Cyperus maculatus

 

Cyperus margaritaceus

 

Cyperus marginatus

 

Cyperus marlothii

 

Cyperus meyerianus

 

Cyperus mwinilungensis

 

Cyperus natalensis

 

Cyperus obtusiflorus

 

Cyperus owanii

 

Cyperus papyrus (Papyrus)

Cyperus pectinatus

 

Cyperus procerus

 

Cyperus prolifer

 

Cyperus pseudoleptocladus

 

Cyperus pseudovestitus

 

Cyperus pulcher

 

Cyperus pygmaeus

 

Cyperus rehmii

 

Cyperus rigidifolius

 

Cyperus rotundus

 

Cyperus rubicundus

 

Cyperus rupestris

 

Cyperus sartorii

 

Cyperus schinzii

 

Cyperus schlechteri

 

Cyperus semitrifidus

 

Cyperus sensilis

 

Cyperus sexangularis

 

Cyperus solidus

 

Cyperus sphaerospermus

 

Cyperus squarrosus

 

Cyperus submacropus

 

Cyperus tabularis

 

Cyperus tenax

 

Cyperus tenellus

 

Cyperus tenuispica

 

Cyperus textilis

 

Cyperus thunbergii

 

Cyperus turrillii

 

Cyperus usitatus

 

Cyperus vestitus

 

Cyperus vorsteri

 

Cyperus zollingeri

 

Cyperus zollingerioides

 

Species naturalised in southern Africa

From Archer (2003).

Cyperus eragrostis

 

Publications

  • Archer, C. 2003. Cyperaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1020-1047. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

 


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