Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Cyperaceae > Cyperus > Cyperus odoratusCyperus odoratus (fragrant flatsedge)Synonyms: Cyperus acicularis (homotypic); Cyperus consocius; Cyperus fastuosus; Cyperus ferax var. bulbiferus; Cyperus jubiflorus; Cyperus lomentaceus; Cyperus poeoides; Cyperus squarrosus var. parvus; Diclidium ferax; Diclidium odoratum (homotypic); Papyrus odorata (homotypic); Torulinium confertum; Torulinium ferax; Torulinium odoratum (homotypic) Cyperus odoratus is a species of sedge known by the common names fragrant flatsedge and rusty flatsedge. This plant can be found in much of the tropical and warm temperate world, including South, Central, and North America, Southeast Asia, some Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar, and central Africa. It is a plant of wet, muddy areas, including disturbed and altered sites. This species is quite variable and may in fact be more than one species included under one name. In general this is an annual plant approaching half a meter in height on average but known to grow much taller. It usually has some long, thin leaves around the base. The inflorescence is made up of one to several cylindrical spikes attached at a common point. Each of the spikes bears a large number of flat, ov |
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Area acres |
Location |
Species |
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Climate |
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Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve |
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34336011 |
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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Assateague Island National Seashore |
II |
8621 |
Maryland, United States |
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Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve |
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90 |
Michigan, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
V |
19586 |
Maryland, District of Columbia, United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Corcovado National Park |
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115845 |
Costa Rica |
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Defensores del Chaco National Park |
II |
1792493 |
Paraguay |
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El Rey National Park |
II |
110298 |
Salta, Argentina |
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Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve |
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Florida, United States |
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Fire Island National Seashore |
V |
9433 |
New York, United States |
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Fort Donelson National Battlefield |
III |
560 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Fort Larned National Historic Site |
III |
706 |
Kansas, United States |
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George Washington Birthplace National Monument |
V |
435 |
Virginia, United States |
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Guanacaste National Park |
II |
85819 |
Costa Rica |
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Gulf Island National Seashore |
II |
67487 |
Florida, Mississippi, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Mburucuyá National Park |
II |
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Corrientes, Argentina |
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Megantoni National Sanctuary |
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536005 |
Cusco, Peru |
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National Capital Region - East National Park |
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District of Columbia, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Point Pelee National Park |
II |
5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Reserva Biológica Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve |
Ia |
6552 |
Costa Rica |
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Reserva de Biosfera del Chaco |
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Paraguay |
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Richmond National Battlefield Park |
III |
1517 |
Virginia, United States |
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Río Pilcomayo National Park |
II |
123699 |
Formosa, Argentina |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Tennessee River Gorge |
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Tennessee, United States |
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Tortuguero National Park |
II |
47632 |
Costa Rica |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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