Taxon: Cyperus iria L.

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:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):227. 1999)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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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 (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Panama
  Caribbean: Cuba; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

References:

• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• 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)
• Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
• 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)
• 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)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya)
• 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)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• 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):227.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rye, B. L. 1997. Nuytsia 11:407.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• 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)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F 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. (F Okin)

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Check other databases for Cyperus iria L.:

• 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
• 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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