Cyperus esculentus L.
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Cyperus esculentus L. (1753)
Cyperus esculentus L.
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L.
L.
1753
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Cyperus esculentus L.
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Cyperus esculentus
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Cyperus esculentus L.
Rhizomes weak, filiform, terminated by hard tubers. Stems to 40 cm high, 3-angled, leafy and ± bulbous at base. Leaves < or > stems, 3-8 mm wide, flat, pale green, margins recurved, scabrid; sheaths reddish-brown. Involucral bracts 4-6, leaf-like, lowest 1-2 > inflorescence. Inflorescence yellow-brown, a simple to compound umbel; rays c. 6, unequal, longest to 10 cm. Spikelets ± 10-15 × 2 mm, linear-oblong, much compressed, in lax ovate spikes at ends of rays. Rhachilla winged. Glumes ± 2.5 mm long, not closely imbricate, ovate, scarcely keeled, tip obtuse or slightly mucronate, yellow-brown, distinctly nerved. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut ± ½ length of glume, obovate-oblong, trigonous, light brown.
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1 January 2000