Flora of New Zealand | Taxon Profile

Classification

Class

Magnoliopsida Brongn.

Order

Poales Small

Family

Cyperaceae Juss.

Subordinate Taxa

Nomenclature

Scientific Name:

Cyperus L., Sp. Pl. 44 (1753)

Synonymy:

= Kyllinga Rottb., Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. 12, t. 4 (1773)

= Thryocephalon J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (1775)

= Kyllingia L.f. (1782)

= Pycreus P.Beauv., Fl. Oware 2, 48 (1816)

Description

Annual, or perennial, often rhizomatous herbs. Stems leafy at base or leaves reduced to basal sheaths. Inflorescence umbellate or capitate, surrounded by 1-several leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets compressed or subterete, 1-many-flowered, usually clustered in spikes at tips of rays or in a sessile spike. Flowers hermaphrodite. Glumes distichous, usually all fertile. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 2–3, or 1. Style 2–3-fid, continuous with ovary, not thickened at base. Nut trigonous or biconvex.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]

Biostatus

Indigenous (Non-endemic)

Number of species in New Zealand within *Cyperus* L.
Category	Number
Indigenous (Endemic)	2
Exotic: Fully Naturalised	12
Exotic: Casual	2
Total	16

Bibliography

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

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Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. 1803–1807: Flore d'Oware et de Benin, en Afrique. Vol. 2. de Fain et Compagnie, Paris.

Rottbøll, C.F 1772: Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas illustrantium liber primus. Societas typographicae, Copenhagen.

Tucker, G.C. 1984: A revision of the genus Kyllinga Rottb. (Cyperaceae) in Mexico and Central America. Novon 86(848): 507–538. [as Kyllinga Rottb.]

Tucker, G.C.; Marcks, B.G.; J.R. Carter 2003: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part); Cyperaceae . Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.) Flora of North America. Vol. 23. Oxford University Press, New York. [as Kyllinga Rottb.]

Cyperus L.