Cyperus cyperoides
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Description
Perennial with very short rhizome;
Leaves rather weak, flat, gradually long-attenuate, scabrid in the upper part, 3-6 mm wide;
Inflorescence simple, rarely subcompound.
Stamens 3:
Distribution
Africa present, Asia present, Asia-Tropical, Australasia, New World present, Southern America, Tropics and subtropics present
Widely spread in the tropics and subtropics of Africa, Asia, and Australia; in the New World only in the West Indies, probably introduced; throughout Malesia.
Notes
It seems superfluous to distinguish nomenclaturally such states as var. subcompositus (CLARKE) [Mariscus sieberianus var. subcompositus ; C. cylindrostachys f. subcompositus ], with some of the spikes bearing a small secondary spike at the base; var. evolutior (CLARKE) (Mariscus siberianus var. evolutior CLARKE, l.c.), a more robust form, and var. microstachys , with narrower spikes and smaller spikelets.
KÜKENTHAL reduced Mariscus rechingeri PALLA to a variety of C. stenophyllus VALCK. SUR. (it is also cited in the synonymy of C. ferax var. novaehannoverae). The original material (New Britain, RECHINGER 4235) got lost during World War II: from PALLA'S description I might infer that it belonged to C. cyperoides.
KÜKENTHAL reduced Mariscus rechingeri PALLA to a variety of C. stenophyllus VALCK. SUR. (it is also cited in the synonymy of C. ferax var. novaehannoverae). The original material (New Britain, RECHINGER 4235) got lost during World War II: from PALLA'S description I might infer that it belonged to C. cyperoides.
Citation
ex CLARKE 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 622
SCHUM. 1891 – In: Warb., Bot. Jahrb. 12: 264
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 47
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 414
S. T. BLAKE 1947 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 224
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 289
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 88
K. SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 193
NEES 1909: Ill. Cyp.: t. 23 f. 5-6
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 290
F.v.M. 1886 – In: Descr. Not.: 34
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 289
VALCK. SUR. 1898: Gesl. Cyp. Mal. Arch: 151: t. 6 f. 6
K. SCH. & HOLLR. 1889: Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land: 24
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 288
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 187
KÜK. 1936 – In: Pfl. R.: 514
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 114
cf. KERN 1952 – In: Reinwardtia: 126
NEES 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 88
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 148
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 76