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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Cyperus compressus - L.
Family
Cyperaceae
Common Name
grass
Habit
Synonym
Habitat
Color Of Flower
Key Characters
Fruit indehiscent; embryo in base of copious endosperm.
Systematic Position
Division :
Monocotyledonae
 
Class :
Glumaceae
 
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Plant Description

Annuals, 3-40 cm high; stems compressed-trigonous; leaves greyish green, 1.5-4 mm broad, subcoriaceous; anthela simple, lax; bracts 3-7, foliaceous; rays divaricately spreading, sometimes absent in depauperated form; spikelets in clusters of 3-13, linear-oblong, 10-35 x 3-5 mm; rhachilla young hyaline-margined; glumes pale yellwish, ovate, 3-4.5 mm long, mucronate, several-nerved, broadly scarious-margined; Stamens 3; stigmas 3, Nuts glossy, blackish brown, obovoid, triquetrous, 1.5-1.7mm long, apiculate, shortly stipitate.

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