Taxon: Cyperus distans L. f.

Common names:

• slender cyperus   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
  Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, North Carolina
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Honduras; Nicaragua
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador [incl. Galapagos]; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Jujuy

• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

References:

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• 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)
• 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. 43:94.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 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)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cyperus distans. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Cyperus distans L. f.:

• 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
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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