Cyperaceae Juss.

First published in Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 26. 1789 [4 Aug 1789] (1789)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Goetghebeur, P. (1998). Cyperaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 141–190. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Govaerts, R., Simpson, D. A., Bruhl, J., Egorova, T., Goetghebeur, P. & Wilson, K. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B., & Beentje, H. J. (2010). Cyperaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Kern, J. H. (1974). Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. I, 7: 435–753. National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden.Simpson & Inglis (2001).
  • Simpson, D. A. & Inglis, C. A. (2001). Cyperaceae of economic, ethnobotanical and horticultural importance: a checklist. Kew Bull. 56: 257–360.

Neotropikey

  • Alves, M., Araújo, A.C, Prata, A.P, Vitta, F., Hefler, S., Trevisan, R., Gil, A.B., Martins & S.,Thomas, W.W. (2007). Diversidade de Cyperaceae no Brasil. In: A Botânica no Brasil: pesquisa, ensino e políticas públicas ambientais (L. Barbosa & N. Santos Junior, orgs.). SBB, São Paulo, pp. 286-290.
  • Bruhl, J.J. (1995). Sedge genera of the world: relationships and a new classification of the Cyperaceae. Australian Systematic Botany 8(2): 125-305.
  • Govaerts, R., Simpson, D.A., Bruhl, J., Egorova, T., Goetghebeur, P., & Wilson, K. (2007). Word checklist of Cyperaceae Sedges. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Kearns, D.M., Thomas, W.W., Tucker, G., Kral, R., Camelbeke, K., Simpson, D.A., Reznicek, A., González-Elizondo, M., Strong, M. & Goetghebeur, P. (1998). Cyperaceae In: Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. and Holst, B.K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana vol. 4, pp. 486-663. Missouri Botanical Garden, Press, St. Louis.
  • Thomas, W.W. (2004). Cyperaceae. In: Smith, N., Mori, S.A., Henderson, A., Stevenson, D.W. & Heald, S.V. (eds.), Flowering Plants of the Neotropics, pp. 434-436. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton.

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Dai, L.-K., Liang, S.-Y., Zhang, S.-R., Tang, Y.-C., Koyama, T., Tucker, G. C., Simpson, D. A., Noltie, H. J., Strong, M. T., Bruhl, J. J., Wilson, K. L. & Muasya, A. M. (2010). Cyperaceae. In: Z. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds), Flora of China 23: 164–461. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Goetghebeur, P. (1998). Cyperaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, IV: 141–190. Springer Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg.
  • Govaerts, R., Simpson, D. A., Bruhl, J., Egorova, T., Goetghebeur, P. & Wilson, K. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Semmouri, I., Bauters, K., Léveillé-Bourret, É., Starr, J. R., Goetghebeur, P. & Larridon, I. (2019). Phylogeny and systematics of Cyperaceae, the evolution and importance of embryo morphology. Bot. Rev. 85: 1–39.
  • Simpson, D. A. & Inglis, C. A. (2001). Cyperaceae of economic, ethnobotanical and horticultural importance: a checklist. Kew Bull. 56: 257–360.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0