Cyperus ligularis L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cyperus ligularis L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial; roots fibrous, thick; rootstock short or none; culms stout, 1.2 m. high or less. Leaves 8-20 mm. wide, pale green, rough-margined, the basal ones often overtopping the culm, those of the involucre sometimes 7 dm. long; umbel 4-12-rayed, large, compound; spikes oblong or subglobose, 8-10 mm. thick, very dense; spikelets gray to brown, 4-6 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, bearing 2-4 aehenes; fruiting scales oval or ovate, striate, blunt, 2.5-3 mm. long; aehene narrowly obovoid to ellipsoid, dark brown, dull, 3-angled, about 1.5 mm. long, half as long as the scale.

  • Distribution

    Swamps. Great Bahama to Andros, New Providence, Fortune Island, North Caicos and Inagua : southern United States : West Indies and tropical continental America ; tropical Africa. Large Cyperus. Saw-grass.

    South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies|