Cyperus pumilus
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Description
Annual with fibrous, yellowish roots.
Leaves weak or somewhat rigid, canaliculate, gradually acuminate, scabrid in the upper part, 1-2 mm wide;
Inflorescence simple or subcompound.
Stamen usually 1, but not rarely in some or all flowers stamens 2;
Distribution
Africa present, Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Buru present, Farther India present, Flores present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Medan present, Mindanao present, N. Luzon present, S. China present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), tropical America present
India, Farther India, Formosa, S. China, Queensland (here known from 2 localities only); in Malesia: Sumatra (with certainty only known from Medan); in the Malay Peninsula and Java very local. but often abundant; in the Philippines from N. Luzon to Mindanao, in most or all islands; but a few times collected in the Lesser Sunda Is. (Flores), Borneo, Celebes, and the Moluccas (Ambon, Buru). Varieties in tropical America and Africa.
Notes
According to KOORDERS, l.c., in Java common in rice-fields and grassy localities in the plains and the mountains (quoted in KÜKENTHAL'S monograph). However, it is neither common in Java nor does it occur in the mountains.
Citation
VALCK. SUR. 1898: Gesl. Cyp. Mal. Arch: 55: t. 2 f. 10
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 39
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 591
BOECK. 1868 – In: Linnaea: 483
Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 61
LINNÉ 1759 – In: Amoen.: 302
KÜK. 1936: p. 375. – In: Pfl. R.: f. 44 A-E
LINNÉ 1762: Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 69
KERN 1954 – In: Reinwardtia: 50
CAMUS 1912 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 33
LINNÉ 1922 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: f. 197
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 128: t. 119
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 255
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 79
Clarke 1884 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 43
RETZ. 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 283
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 255
LINNÉ 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 470
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cum. Philip.: 155
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 110
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 140
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 255
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 186, 192
DOMIN 1915 – In: Bibl. Bot.: 417
NAVES 1882: NOV. App.: 300
ex CLARKE 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 591
NEES 1854 – In: Hook., J. Bot. Kew Misc. 6: 28
TURRILL 1922: Kew Bull.: 124