Erect annual or perennial herb ; up to 40 cm long with numerous , reddish brown roots . Stems (culms) single , triangular , glabrous , green . Leaves few , basal , as long as stems ; leaf sheath green to reddish brown or purplish ; leaf blade 8-20 cm , linear , flat or slightly keeled , apex acute , margins smooth , glabrous or scabrid at apex . Inflorescences a simple to compound anthela ; spikelets 5–20-flowered , in loose clusters , yellowish brown , slightly flattened ; glumes greyish green , ovate , apex obtuse , glabrous or slightly scabrid . Fruit nutlet , 1 . 3–1 . 6 × 0 . 6–0 . 8 mm , dark brown to black as mature , obovoid , trigonous , minutely papillose , surface almost smooth . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
No Data
Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Chlorocyperus iria (L.) Rikli
Cyperus chrysomelinus Link
Cyperus iria var. paniciformis (Franch. & Sav.) C.B.Clarke
No Data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Rice Flatsedge
Rice Field Flatsedge
Iria Flatsedge
Grasshopper's Cyperus
Umbrella sedge
Not recorded yet. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.nameslist.org https://sites.google.com Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
