Herbaria

Family

Cyperaceae

subfamily

Genus

Cyperus L.

Species

Cyperus alopecuroides Rottb.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Rottb.

citation

Descr. Pl. Rar. Progr. 20 (1772)

herbariaSynonyms

Cyperus fastigiatus Forssk.

Cyperus glaucus Willd. ex Kunth

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

HEU (Mm)

CAI (Mm-Nv)

CAIRC (Nv-Nn)

ALEX (Mm-Nv-Di-Dg)

TANE (Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

HEU

CAI

CAIRC

ALEX

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

HEU (4)

CAI (150)

CAIRC (5)

ALEX (15)

TANE (36)

Habitat

Nile and canal banks, drains, ditches, pools, lakes, rice fields and marshy ground.

FlFrperiod

All the year

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Samar Helw سمار حلو

Seraqon سراقون

Olub El Sultan علوب السلطان

EnglishName

Foxtail flat sedge

herbariaUses

Making mats and chairs

Making papers

GlobalDistribution

Africa, SW. Syria to Tropical Asia, N. Australia.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

Boulos, L. 2009. Flora of Egypt Checklist, Revised annotated edition, Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo, Egypt

El Hadidi, M.N.& Fayed, A. 1994/95. Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt (EFE). Taeckholmia 15

Simpson, D. (ed.) 2005. in L.Boulos, Flora of Egypt vol. 4. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Tackholm, V. and Drar, M. 1950. Flora of Egypt vol. 2. Bull. Fac. Sci. no. 28