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Global Distribution
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Egypt, tropical Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, east Indies, Philippines, central and south America.
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Description
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Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, coarse. Culms trigonous, 50–150 cm × 2–15 mm, glabrous (rarely sparsely scabridulous on angles proximal to bracts). Leaves inversely W-shaped, 40–100 cm × 5–15 mm. Inflorescences: spikes 1–4, cylindric, (2.5–)3.5–5 × 1.2–1.5 cm; rays 8–10, (1–)15–35 cm; 2d order rays 1–3 cm; bracts 8–12, ascending at 45–60°, (5–)20–80 cm × 3–15 mm; 2d order bracts 3–7 cm × 2–4 mm; rachilla persistent, wings 0.3 mm wide, at achene maturation adaxial edge of wing detaching from rachilla, base remaining firmly attached. Spikelets 35–65, slightly compressed, linear, ± quadrangular, 5–8 × 0.8–1.1 mm; floral scales deciduous, 12–16, appressed, marginally clear, laterally reddish along midrib, medially green, laterally 1–2-ribbed, medially strongly 5-ribbed, ovate, 1.6–1.8 × 1.1–1.3 mm, apex mucronulate. Flowers: anthers 0.4–0.5 mm, connective blunt, at most 0.1 mm; styles 0.8–1 mm; stigmas 0.4 mm. Achenes brown or whitish, sessile, ellipsoid, slightly wider at base, 0.9 × 0.4 mm, surfaces finely puncticulate.
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Description
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Perennial, 60-150 cm. Rhizome short, horizontal, covered by brown or dark-brown scales. Stem 2-8 mm diam., trigonous, edges obtuse below, smooth, sides in upper part often concave. Leaves basal, shorter than stem; sheaths up to 20 cm, yellowish or brown, soft, one side scarious, mouth margin concave; blades 50 cm or longer, 6-12 mm wide, flat or folded, keeled, margins narrowly revolute, smooth or distally scabrous, apex long-attenuate, trigonous, scabrous. Inflorescence a compound anthelodium, 10-25 cm; bracts, 6-9 lowermost leaf-like, longest more than 50 cm; primary branches mostly 6-9, to 15 cm, with tubular prophyll up to 20 mm; secondary anthelodia 4-10 cm; cluster of spikes 30-50 mm long, with 30-60 spikes; spikes spirally arranged, reflexed, 7-13 x c. 2 mm, glume-like bract 1.5-2 mm, acute, glume-like prophyll 1.6-2 mm, binerved; rachis rigid, flat, reddish brown, internodes c. 1 mm; glumes 2.5-2.8 mm, acute, midnerve area green, sides with 2-3 conspicuous veins and often with reddish-brown zone, margins widely scarious, basal edges extending down to next node. Nut 1.3-1.5 x 0.4-0.5 mm, ovoid, trigonous, grey-brown, very finely reticulate.
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Distribution
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Tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres.
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Distribution
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Fla., Tex.; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Pantropical; in SE Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to S. China, Philippines, Malaysia and SE Australia.
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Elevation Range
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1100 m
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: July-August.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Fruiting summer.
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Habitat
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Wet pastures, stream banks; 0–100m.
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Habitat
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Open wet places, swamps, rice fields.
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Cyperus digitatus
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Cyperus digitatus, also known as finger flatsedge in the United States,[2] and chang xiao sui suo cao in China,[3] is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.[4][5]
Description
The grass like sedge typically grows to a height of 1 metre (3.3 ft).[5] The perennial sedge has short woody rhizomes and tufted smooth culms with a triangular cross-section that grow to a height of 0.5 to 1.5 m (1 ft 8 in to 4 ft 11 in). The leaves below are nearly the same length as the culms and have brown to purple coloured sheaths. The sub-leathery, flat to folded leaf blade has a width of 4 to 15 mm (0.16 to 0.59 in). It form as inflorescence with six to ten rays that have a length up to 18 cm (7.1 in) and have four to seven raylets that have cylindrical spikes that are 3 to 6 cm (1.2 to 2.4 in) long and 0.2 to 2 cm (0.079 to 0.787 in) wide.[6]
Taxonomy
The species was first described by the botanist William Roxburgh in 1820 as a part of the work Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants. The type specimen was collected by Roxburgh in India.[3] It has ten synonyms including; Cyperus bourgaei, Cyperus digitatus var. laxiflorus, Cyperus digitatus var. pingbienensis and Cyperus mexicanus.[3]
Distribution
In Asia the renge of the plant extends from Pakistan in the west to the eastern sea board of China in the east and extends doen through most of Malesia. In Australia is found in creek beds and other damp areas in a small area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia[5] as well as other northern tropical parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland. In the Americas it is found as far north as Texas with the range extending south through Central America and into South America as far south as Argentina. In Africa it is found as far north as Egypt south through the rest of the continent to Botswana.[4]
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Cyperus digitatus: Brief Summary
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Cyperus digitatus, also known as finger flatsedge in the United States, and chang xiao sui suo cao in China, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
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