Taxon: Cyperus rotundus L.
Genus: Cyperus
Family: Cyperaceae.
Nomen number: 316644
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: 09-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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AL°, AR*°, AZ°, CA*°, FL°, GA°, LA°, MS°, NC°, NM°, OK*°, OR*, SC°, TN°, TX°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- coco-grass (Source: HerbSpices
) – English
- nut sedge (Source: AH 505
) – English
- nut-grass (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- purple nut sedge (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- red nut sedge (Source: Weed CIBA
) – English
- suo cao (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – Transcribed Chinese
- xiang fu zi (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – Transcribed Chinese
- souchet rond (Source: HerbSpices
) – French
- alho-bravo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-alho (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-dandá (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tiririca (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tiririca-vermelha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- castañuela (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- coquito (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
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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; Morocco; Tunisia; Western Sahara Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Yemen - Socotra East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
- EUROPE
Middle Europe: Austria; Switzerland Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Missouri Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, 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 Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Veracruz
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; U.S. Outlying Islands - Wake Island
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama Caribbean: Anguilla; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela Brazil: Brazil Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru Southern South America: Argentina
Naturalized:
- PACIFIC
South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Niue; Tonga
- Abbiw, D. K.
1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al.
1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581. (F St John)
- Boggan, J. et al.
1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
- 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)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll.
1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- 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)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- 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)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds.
1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. (F SAust)
- 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)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- 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)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Padua, L. S. de et al., eds.
1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
12(1):228.
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Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
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1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI. (F Cayman)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
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1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Rogers, G. & B. McClain.
1998. The sedges (Cyperaceae) of Barbados.
Rhodora
100:398.
- 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)
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1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1958. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
24(part 1):136.
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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)
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
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1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
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1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
- Tucker, G. C.
1994. Revision of the Mexican species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae).
Syst. Bot. Monogr.
43:101–103.
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1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
A:108.
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1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
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1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 (L Argent)
- More:
Check other databases for Cyperus rotundus 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
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
- 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.
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