Cyperus L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 44 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Aldabra, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Ascension, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cabinda, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Central American Pacific Is., Central European Russia, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, South European Russia, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Ireland, Tristan da Cunha, Tuvalu

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2008). Flora Iberica 18: 1-420. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
  • Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Pereira-Silva, L., Larridon, I., de Oliveira Ribeiro, A.R., Santos, V.M. & Trevisan, R. (2022). Diversity and taxonomy of Cyperus (Cyperaceae) in the Central-West region of Brazil. Annals from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 480-545. MBG press.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Kew Bulletin

  • Denton, M. F. (1978). A taxonomic treatment of the Luzulae group of Cyperus. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 11: 197 - 271.
  • Guarise, N. J. & Vegetti, A. C. (2008). The inflores­cences structure of Cyperus L. section Luzuloidei Kunth (Cyperaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 271: 41 - 63.
  • IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee (2016). Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. In: Version 12. Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, Prepared by the http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf.
  • Kukenthal, G. (1935 - 36). Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae- Cypereae. In: A. Engler (ed.), Das Pflanzenreich IV. 20 (Heft 101): 1 - 671. W. Engelmann, Leipzig.
  • Larridon, I. , Huygh, W., Reynders, M., Muasya, A. M., Govaerts, R., Simpson, D. A. & Goetghebeur, P. (2011c). Nomenclature and typification of names of genera and subdivisions of genera in Cypereae (Cyperaceae): 2. Names of subdivisions of Cyperus. Taxon 60: 868 - 884.
  • Larridon, I., Reynders, M. , Bauters, K., Vrijdaghs, A., Leroux, O., Muasya, A. M. & Goetghebeur, P. (2011b). Taxonomic changes in C3 Cyperus (Cyperaceae) supported by molecular phylogenetic data, mor­phology, embryography, ontogeny and anatomy. Pl. Ecol. Evol. 144: 327 - 356.
  • Larridon, I., Reynders, M., Huygh, W., Bauters, K., Van de Putte, K., Muasya, A. M., Boeckx, P., Simpson, D. A., Vrijdaghs, A. & Goetghebeur, P. (2011a). Affinities in C3 Cyperus lineages (Cyperaceae) revealed using molecular phylogenetic data and carbon isotope analysis. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167: 19 - 46.
  • Pimentel, M. M. (2016). The tectonic evolution ofthe Neoproterozoic Brasilia Belt, central Brazil: a geochronological and isotopic approach. Brazil. J. Geol. 46 (Suppl. 1): 67 - 82. doi:10.1590/2317-4889201620150004
  • Tucker, G. C  (2013). Two new Neotropical species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae). Kew Bull. 68: 850 - 855.
  • Tucker, G. C , Carter, J. R. & Marcks, B. G. (2002). Cyperus (Cyperaceae — Sedge Family). In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (eds), Flora of North America 23: 141 - 190. Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford.
  • Tucker, G. C (2001). Cyperus (Cyperaceae). In: W. D. Stevens, C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool, O. M. Montiel, A. L. Arbelaez & D. M. Cutaia (eds), Flora de Nicaragua (Tomo I), Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 740 - 757.
  • Tucker, G. C (2007). Systematics of Cyperus L. section Diffusi Kunth(Cyperaceae)intheNeotropics.In:L.M. Barbosa, N. A. Dos Santos & Jr. (eds), A Botanica no Brasil: pesquisa, ensino e politicas publicas ambientes, pp. 311 - 314. Sociedade Botanica do Brasil, Sao Paulo.
  • Tucker, G. C. (1994). Revision of the Mexican Species of Cyperus L. (Cyperaceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 43: 1 - 213.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 310–377 (1901)
  • Kükenthal in Engl., Pflanzenr., Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae 41–315 (1935–36).
  • Sp. Pl. 44 (1753)

Flora Zambesiaca

  • L., Sp. Pl.: 44 (1753).
  • M. Lock in Flora Zambesiaca Volume: 14: Cyperaceae (2020). MÁ García, Jonathan R Timberlake (Eds). Kew Publishing, London.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Sp. Pl.: 44 (1753)

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