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The annual sedge typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.75 metres (0.3 to 2.5 ft) and has a tufted habit. It blooms between May and December and produces green-yellow-brown flowers. [3] The erect and glabrous grass has fine and numerous roots. It as slender or rigidulous, trigonous stems that are 0.5 to 2.0 millimetres (0.020 to 0.079 in) thick.
Fimbristylis miliacea is an annual sedge which grows in clumps of erect stems up to about half a meter in height surrounded by fans of narrow flat leaves. [3] The top of each stem is occupied by an array of spikelets, each borne on a long peduncle. [3] The spikelet is spherical to ovate and reddish brown in color.
The annual or perennial sedge has a slender tufted habit. It has smooth trigonous or triquetrous shaped culms that are typically 10 to 35 cm (3.9 to 13.8 in) in height with a diameter of 0.8 to 2 mm (0.031 to 0.079 in) diameter. [2] The septate to nodulose leaves are shorter than the culms and have a width of about 4.5 mm (0.18 in).
Cyperus difformis is a species of sedge known by several common names, including variable flatsedge, [2] smallflower umbrella-sedge and rice sedge. [3] This plant is native to southern Europe , most of Africa and Asia , and Australia , and it is naturalized in other areas of the world, including large parts of the Americas.
Cyperus albostriatus (dwarf umbrella sedge), formerly called C. diffusus) [14] Cyperus haspan [15] Cyperus longus [14] [16] Cyperus papyrus (papyrus) [14] Some Cyperus species are used in folk medicine. Roots of Near East species were a component of kyphi, a medical incense of Ancient Egypt. Tubers of C. rotundus (purple nut-sedge) tubers are ...
The annual grass-like or herb sedge typically grows to a height of 0.05 to 0.7 metres (0.16 to 2.30 ft) and has a tufted habit. In Australia, it blooms between February and August and produces green-brown flowers. [2] It has slender culms slender with a length of 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 in) that are four or five-angled and quite flattened. The ...
The Cyperaceae (/ ˌ s aɪ p ə ˈ r eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera [3] [4] – the largest being the "true sedges" (genus Carex), [5] [6] with over 2,000 species.
Cyperus esculentus is an annual or perennial plant, growing to 90 centimetres (3 feet) tall, with solitary stems growing from a tuber. The plant is reproduced by seeds, creeping rhizomes, and tubers. [15]