Cyperus giganteus
Cyperaceae FAMILY

Cyperus giganteus

Cyperus giganteus

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitPerennial
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cyperus+giganteus>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Volume 30 — Missouri Botanical Garden; St. Louis. · 1943 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Contains parts of the Flora of Panama.This, and other volumes of the series, are available for download from the Internet.
  2. [2]Flora of Barro Colorado Island — Croat. Thomas B. · Stanford University Press · 1978 · http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home · ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 ↩︎A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web.
  3. [3]Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains. — Harrington. H. D. · University of New Mexico Press · 1967 · ISBN 0-8623-0343-9 ↩︎A superb book. Very readable, it gives the results of the authors experiments with native edible plants.
  4. [4]Medicinal Plants of the Guianas — DeFilipps, R. A.; Maina, S. L.; & Crepin, J. · Smithsonian Museum · http://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html ↩︎A down-loadable PDF document of a book in pre-publication awaiting illustration. An excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses of the plants of the region
  5. [5]Cyperaceae of Economic, Ethnobotanical and Horticultural Importance: A Checklist — Simpson D.A.; Inglis C.A. · The Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew, London · 2001 · ISBN 1-84246-038-2 ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive checklist, giving the range, habitat and uses of over 500 species.