| Monocotyledon | Literature for Cyperus rotundus
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2019. |
| Cyperaceae -- The Sedge Family | Bibliography |
| Cyperus rotundus | |
Common name(s): umbrella segde, kili`o`opu, mau`u mokae, nut grass |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | A cosmopolitan weed.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kure, Midway, French Frigate Shoals, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Perennial herb, rhizomes slender,
elongate, deeply rooted, each one terminated by a globose or ovoid-ellipsoid tuber; culms solitary or few together, bearing a cormlike enlargement at base, slender, trigonous, smooth, erect, 10‒30(‒60) cm tall, leafy at base. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves few, much shorter than the culm, folded; blade linear, 2‒5 mm wide; sheath pale brown, eventually disintegrating into brown parallel fibers; ligule short. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences simple to compound, open, with 2‒10 slender rays of unequal length, 1‒8(‒12) cm long, spreading, spikes turbinate with short rachis, loosely bearing 3‒10 spikelets, rachis scarious-winged;
involucral bracts usually 2‒3(‒5), the
lowest one 2‒3 times as long as the corymb. Spikelets 8‒28-flowered, reddish brown, spreading, linear, 1‒3 cm long, 2‒3 mm wide, rachilla winged; glumes reddish brown or dark purple-red, with hyaline margin in basal portion, membranous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 3‒3.2 mm long, folded, 5‒7-veined, keel subacute, apex obtuse or mucronate, mucro recurved; stamens 3, anthers 1–2.5 mm; style long, stigmas 3, longer than style. |
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| Fruit |
Achenes brown, oblong, trigonous, ⅓‒2/5
as long as the glume, minutely puncticulate. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 16, 26, 84, 96, 100, 108, 128, 152. |
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| Contributor |
David Lorence |
