Cyperaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Cyperus elatus

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cyperus elatus is a perennial, grass-like plant producing lax clumps of stout culms around 50 - 300cm tall from a short, hardened rhizomes[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvsted from the wild for local use in making mats etc. Cyperus elatus is widely distributed and although population information is not available, it is not threatened. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeE. Asia - southern China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.

HabitatPond and stream margins; from near sea level to 1,500 metres[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. In swamps, wet rice-fields and meadows, on river-banks, and in other open wet places; at elevations up to 700 metres, very rarely to 1,000 metres[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ].