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Cyperus niveus
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Family:
CYPERACEAE
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Citation: Cyperus niveus Retz., Obs. Bot. 5: 12. 1789; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 601. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1640(1139). 1931; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 775. 1997.
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Description:
Glabrous rhizomatous sedge; rhizome short, woody, horizontal, sympodial with wiry rootlets; stem to 40 cm high, nodose at base. Leaves usually near base of the culms, rather numerous, narrowly linear with filiform tips, shorter than stems, 2-3 mm wide; sheaths numerous, brown, striate, persistent. Inflorescence umbellate heads ;bracts usually 2, up to 6 cm long, unequal, not dilated at the base, leaf-like. Spikelets 3-12 in a head 15-18 x 5-6 mm, oblong-elliptic, compressed, 20-40-flowered, pale, sometimes almost white; rachilla not winged. Glumes 5 x 1.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, compressed; keel produced into a very short micro; margins whitish or whitish-brown, multistriate, with narrow, hyaline margins. Stamens 3; filaments long, persistent; anther exserted, linear. Style 1.5 mm long; stigma 3, rather shorter than the style. Achene 2 mm long, obovoid, triquetrous, dark-brown.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Wetlands
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Distribution:
India and Myanmar
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Aquatic:
Yes
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Arikode
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