Taxon: Cyperus iria L.

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Common names:

• grasshopper's cyperus   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• rice flat sedge   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• umbrella sedge   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• junça   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• junquinho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tiririca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• três-quinas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Kew Bull 56:296. 2001)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):227. 1999)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Mali; Niger; Nigeria [n.]; Senegal
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Gauteng, Limpopo, North West; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China [throughout]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India [throughout]; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, New York, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa, Sonora
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• 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.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):227.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rye, B. L. 1997. A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11:407.
• Simpson, D. A. & C. A. Inglis. 2001. Cyperaceae of economic, ethnobotanical and horticultural importance: a checklist. Kew Bull. 56:296.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tucker, G. C. 1994. Revision of the Mexican species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 43:91.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cyperus iria.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cyperus iria.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cyperus iria.

Check other web resources for Cyperus iria L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.

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