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Cyperus

Index Cyperus

Cyperus is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions. [1]

86 relations: Abortifacient, Africa, Amazon basin, Ancient Egypt, Anemophily, Annual plant, Aquatic ecosystem, Bicyclus anynana, Biofuel, Bird, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cameroon, Carex pseudocyperus, Carl Linnaeus, Chedra microstigma, Chontal Maya, Conserved name, Container garden, Convergent evolution, Cyperaceae, Cyperus alternifolius, Cyperus articulatus, Cyperus bulbosus, Cyperus esculentus, Cyperus giganteus, Cyperus laevigatus, Cyperus papyrus, Cyperus rotundus, Denmark, Ecuador, Essential oil, Extinction, Flavor, Flower, Fossil, Genus, Harvard University Press, Horchata, Incense, India, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Invasive species, Jutland, Kampo, Kyphi, Larva, Lepidoptera, List of Cyperus species, Mammal, Maya peoples, ..., Mexico, Mexico City, Middle Miocene, Missouri Botanical Garden, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Natura &Co, Near East, Niihau, Nomen illegitimum, Nong Prue District, Northern Paiute, Ornamental plant, Oxford University Press, Palakkad, Panama, Paper, Papyrus, Perennial plant, Poaceae, Pyrena, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Seed, Silkeborg, Sombrero, Species, Spice, Stratum, Sudan, Tabasco, Thailand, The Plant List, Traditional medicine, Tuber, Valencian Community, Wadi El Natrun, Whorl (botany). Expand index (36 more) »

Abortifacient

An abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage" from Latin: abortus "miscarriage" and faciens "making") is a substance that induces abortion.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.

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Anemophily

Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.

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Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.

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Aquatic ecosystem

An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem in a body of water.

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Bicyclus anynana

Bicyclus anynana (squinting bush brown) is a small brown butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, the most globally diverse family of butterflies.

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Biofuel

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Cameroon

No description.

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Carex pseudocyperus

Carex pseudocyperus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name cyperus sedge or hop sedge.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chedra microstigma

Chedra microstigma is a moth of the Batrachedridae family.

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Chontal Maya

The Chontal Maya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco.

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Conserved name

A conserved name or nomen conservandum (plural nomina conservanda, abbreviated as nom. cons.) is a scientific name that has specific nomenclatural protection.

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Container garden

Container gardening or pot gardening is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

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Cyperaceae

The Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses and rushes.

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Cyperus alternifolius

Cyperus alternifolius, with the common names of umbrella papyrus, umbrella sedge or umbrella palm, is a grass-like plant in the very large genus Cyperus of the sedge family, Cyperaceae.

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Cyperus articulatus

Cyperus articulatus is an aromatic species of sedge known by the common names jointed flatsedge and priprioca.

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Cyperus bulbosus

Cyperus bulbosus is a species of sedge found across Africa, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

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Cyperus esculentus

Cyperus esculentus (also called chufa sedge, nut grass, yellow nutsedge, tiger nut sedge, or earth almond) is a crop of the sedge family widespread across much of the world.

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Cyperus giganteus

Cyperus giganteus (also known as piripiri) is a plant in the genus Cyperus.

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Cyperus laevigatus

Cyperus laevigatus is a species of sedge known by the common name smooth flatsedge.

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Cyperus papyrus

Cyperus papyrus (papyrus,papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, Nile grass) is a species of aquatic flowering plant belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae.

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Cyperus rotundus

Cyperus rotundus (coco-grass, Java grass, nut grass, purple nut sedge or purple nutsedge, red nut sedge, Khmer kravanh chrukMARTIN, Robert & POL Chanthy, 2009, Weeds of Upland Cambodia, ACIAR Monagraph 141, Canberra) is a species of sedge (Cyperaceae) native to Africa, southern and central Europe (north to France and Austria), and southern Asia.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (defined as "the tendency of a substance to vaporize") aroma compounds from plants.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Flavor

Flavor (American English) or flavour (British English; see spelling differences) is the sensory impression of food or other substance, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of taste and smell.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Horchata

Horchata, or orxata, is the name of several kinds of beverages, made of ground rice.

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Incense

Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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International Association for Plant Taxonomy

The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland; Jütland), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Cimbricus Chersonesus; Den Kimbriske Halvø; Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.

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Kampo

, often known simply as, is the study of traditional Chinese medicine in Japan following its introduction, beginning in the 7th century.

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Kyphi

Kyphi is a compound incense that was used in Ancient Egypt for religious and medical purposes.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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List of Cyperus species

The genus Cyperus contains the following species recognised by The Plant List.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Maya peoples

The Maya peoples are a large group of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Middle Miocene

The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages.

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Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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Natura &Co

Natura & Co or simply Natura is a Brazilian manufacturer and marketer of beauty products, household, and personal care, skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products the company that sells products through representatives and in more than 3.200 stores in 70 countries across the world.

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Near East

The Near East is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia.

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Niihau

Niihau (Hawaiian) is the westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaiokinai.

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Nomen illegitimum

Nomen illegitimum (Latin for illegitimate name) is a technical term, used mainly in botany.

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Nong Prue District

Nong Prue (หนองปรือ) is a district (amphoe) in the northeastern part of Kanchanaburi Province, central Thailand.

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Northern Paiute

Northern Paiute is a Numic tribe that has traditionally lived in the Great Basin in eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Palakkad

Palakkad, also known as Palghat, is a city and municipality in the state of Kerala in southern India, spread over an area of 26.60 km2 and is the administrative headquarters of the Palakkad District.

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Panama

Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

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Paper

Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.

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Papyrus

Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Pyrena

Pyrena or pyrene is the name for the stone within a drupe or drupelet.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Silkeborg

Silkeborg is a Danish town with a population of 43,158 (1 January 2014).

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Sombrero

Sombrero (Spanish for "hat", literally "shadower") in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat from Mexico, used to shield from the sun.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spice

A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

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Stratum

In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.

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Sudan

The Sudan or Sudan (السودان as-Sūdān) also known as North Sudan since South Sudan's independence and officially the Republic of the Sudan (جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Tabasco

Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Plant List

The Plant List is a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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Valencian Community

The Valencian Community, or the Valencian Country, is an autonomous community of Spain.

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Wadi El Natrun

Wadi El Natrun (Arabic for "Natron Valley"; Ϣⲓϩⲏⲧ Šihēt "Measure of the Hearts", Σκῆτις or Σκήτη) is a valley located in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, including a town with the same name.

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Whorl (botany)

In botany, a whorl or verticil is an arrangement of sepals, petals, leaves, stipules or branches that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem.

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Adupla, Anosporum, Diclidium, Epiphystis, Flat-sedge, Flatsedge, Nutsedge, Opetiola, Oxycaryum, Pycreus, Remirea, Torulinium, Umbrella sedge, Umbrella-sedge, Umbrellasedge.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus

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