     
Taxon: Cyperus esculentus L.
Genus: Cyperus
Family: Cyperaceae.
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: 11-Dec-2009
Species priority site is: National Arctic Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PALM).
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE 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:
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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
- 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
- juncia avellanada (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- 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
Central Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Colima, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatan; Panama
Caribbean: Aruba; Bermuda; Cuba; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
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
- EUROPE
East Europe: Ukraine
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
- Boulos, L.
1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
- Burkill, H. M.
1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal.
1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. (Esp Veg Prom)
6:310–337.
- Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll.
1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
- Duke, J. A.
1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds.
1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
9:78–82.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh.
1993–. Flora of Victoria. (F Victoria)
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. (Pl SAfr ed2)
- Ghazanfar, S. A.
1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. (L Oman)
- Govaerts, R. & D. A. Simpson.
2007. World checklist of Cyperaceae, sedges. (L Cyperaceae)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Haines, R. W. & K. A. Lye.
1983. Sedges and rushes of East Africa. (Sedge EAfr)
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Harden, G. J., ed.
1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSWales)
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds.
1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Migahid, A. M.
1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
- Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck.
1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
- Pascual, B. et al.
2001. Chufa ( L. var. sativus Boeck.): an unconventional crop.
Econ. Bot.
54:439–448.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Rosengarten, F.
1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
- Schippers, P. et al.
1995. Syst. Bot.
20:461–481.
- 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. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
- Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross.
1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland. (F SE Queensl)
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds.
1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
- Thulin, M., ed.
1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
- Tucker, G. C.
1994. Revision of the Mexican species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae).
Syst. Bot. Monogr.
43:97.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
- More:
Check other databases for Cyperus esculentus L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
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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