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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH310 : Cyperus difformis L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 532  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Cyperus L. - flatsedge
Species : Cyperus difformis
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Cyperaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : variable flatsedge, smallflower umbrella-sedge and rice sedge
 
Synonym : Cyperus difformis f. humilis Debeaux.
Cyperus difformis f. maximus C.B.Clarke
Cyperus difformis var. breviglobosus Kük.
Cyperus difformis var. subdecompositus Kük.
Cyperus goeringii Steud.
Cyperus holoschoenoides Jan ex Schult.
Cyperus lateriflorus Torr., nom. illeg.
Cyperus oryzetorum Steud.
Cyperus protractus Link, nom. illeg.
Cyperus subrotundus Llanos
Cyperus viridis Willd. ex Kunth, nom. illeg.
Description : Erect, tufted, non-rhizomatous annual herbs; roots reddish, culms 20-48 cm tall, acutery triquetrous with concave sides. Leaves few, basal, 9-30 x 0.3-0.5 cm, linear-acute, flat; sheaths 2-6 cm long, brown. Inflorescence compound, 3-6 cm across, branches ending in congested globose clusters of spikelets; leafy bracts 2-3; the lowest upto 20 cm long. Spikelets 2-5 x c. 1 mm, linear, obtuse. Glumes c. 0.7 x 1 mm, orbicular, apex rounded or emarginate, margins broadly white-hyaline, keel yellowish. Stamens 1-2. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 0.5 mm long, elliptic, trigonous, apiculate, pale brown.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Cyperene
cyperotundone
isorotundene
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :