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Cyperus eragrostis - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Braga, Portugal; 7/2008 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Braga, Portugal; 7/2008 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Inflorescence, close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, close-up; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Braga, Portugal; 7/2008 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Lower surface of leaf close-up - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf close-up; Braga, Portugal; 7/2008 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Braga, Portugal; 7/2008 © Jörn Germer

Cyperus eragrostis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 897
Date of entry: 08.08.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Tall Flatsedge

German: Frischgrünes Zypergras

Mandarin: 密穗莎草 (mi sui suo cao)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Cyperales (91)

        Family: Cyperaceae (20)(family description)

          Genus: Cyperus (8)

            Epithet: eragrostis Lam. (1)

eragrostis => lovegrass (same meaning as for Eragrostis), possibly also earth- or fieldgrass instead

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: helophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

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