Species Cyperus usitatus Burch. (Indian grass)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Plantae
  • - phylum: Tracheophyta
  • -- class: Liliopsida
  • --- order: Poales
  • ---- family: Cyperaceae
  • ----- species: Cyperus usitatus
Characteristics:sedge with many thin, linear leaves with a single peduncle ending in a tuft of compressed brown buds, bulb is edible
Countries:
BW
Botswana
NA
Namibia
ZA
South Africa
Ecoregions:
AT1309
Kalahari xeric savanna
Links:
References:Van der Walt and le Riche 1999: 99
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