     
Taxon: Cyperus esculentus L.
Genus: Cyperus
Family: Cyperaceae subfamily: Cyperoideae tribe: Cypereae.
Nomen number: 12901
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:45. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 10-Dec-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2011
Species priority site is: Arctic and Subarctic Plant Gene Bank (PALM).
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED AS A STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
-
AZ°, CA*°, CO*°, CT°, GA°, HI*°, LA°, ME°, MI*°, MS°, NC°, NH°, NM°, OR*, TN°, TX°, WA*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from
- earth-almond (Source: Weed CIBA
) – English
- tigernut (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- water-grass (Source: Weed CIBA
) – English
- yellow nut sedge (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- yellow nut-grass (Source: F CalifMunz
) – English
- amande de terre (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- choufa (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- souchet comestible (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Erdmandel (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- gireumgol (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:95.) – Transcribed Korean
- chufa (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- tiririca (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tiririca-amarela (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tiririca-mansa (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cebollín (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- chufa (Source: A. Molina, p.c.) – Spanish
- juncia avellanada (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- jordmandel (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya
Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
South Tropical Africa: Angola
Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape; Swaziland
Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
Caucasus: Azerbaijan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
Indo-China: Vietnam
Malesia: Indonesia - Java
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec
Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Aruba; Bermuda; Cuba; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Panama
Northern South America: Venezuela
Brazil: Brazil [s.]
Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Shandong
Eastern Asia: Taiwan
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
New Zealand: New Zealand
- EUROPE
East Europe: Ukraine
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
Cultivated:
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2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
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1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
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1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
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1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
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1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
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1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello.
6:310–337.
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1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
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1994. Flora mesoamericana.
- Duke, J. A.
1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds.
1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
9:78–82.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh.
1993–. Flora of Victoria.
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
- Ghazanfar, S. A.
1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
- Govaerts, R. & D. A. Simpson.
2007. World checklist of Cyperaceae, sedges.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Haines, R. W. & K. A. Lye.
1983. Sedges and rushes of East Africa.
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
- Harden, G. J., ed.
1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds.
1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
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2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Migahid, A. M.
1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
- Molina G., A. M.
2011. Review of Cyperaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2.
pers. comm.
via e–mail on 31 Mar.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:95.
- Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck.
1959. A California flora.
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2001. Chufa ( L. var. sativus Boeck.): an unconventional crop.
Econ. Bot.
54:439–448.
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Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Rosengarten, F.
1984. The book of edible nuts.
- Schippers, P. et al.
1995. A revision of the infraspecific taxonomy of Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge) with an experimentally evaluated character set.
Syst. Bot.
20:461–481.
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
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2001. Cyperaceae of economic, ethnobotanical and horticultural importance: a checklist.
Kew Bull.
56:292–293.
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1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
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1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
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1948–. Flora malesiana.
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1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
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1993–. Flora of Somalia.
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1994. Revision of the Mexican species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae).
Syst. Bot. Monogr.
43:97.
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Malezas de México (on-line resource).
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1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- Webster's third new international dictionary.
- More:
Check other web resources for Cyperus esculentus L.:
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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