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Latin (Botanical) name: Cyperus laevigatus L. = Juncellus laevigatus (L.) C. B. Cl., Chlorocyperus laevigatus (L.) Palla, Acorellus laevigatus (L.) Palla.

Family: Cyperaceae.

Common name: Cyperus, Borbeit, ‘Okreish, Bor’an, Sammoor, Sommeira, Sommeira na’ame, Khabb, Boot, Se’ed, Dees.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

CYPERACEAE A. Juss. : Flowers bisexual, nut lying bare inside the glume. Leaves not prickly-serrated. Plants glabrous. Spikelets several in a terminal, crowded head. Head supported by 3 or more leaves. CYPERUS. Spikelets flat with 2-ranked glumes. CYPERUS L. Spikelets flat with 2-ranked glumes, either spicate or umbelled. Spikes or umbels arranged in a large compound umbel, rarely the whole inflorescence consisting of but a single spike of spikelets or a head of spikelets. Stigmas 3, nut trigonous ; perianth absent.

Spikelets in digitate clusters, in heads, or irregularly fascicled. Inflorescence head-like, no umbel-rays. Perennials with terete, grooved leaves. Spikelets few in a simple, lateral, sessile cluster. CYPERUS LAEVIGATUS L. (= Juncellus laevigatus (L.) C. B. Cl., Chlorocyperus laevigatus (L.) Palla, Acorellus laevigatus (L.) Palla.) : Stem leafless or with short, fleshy, trigonous leaves. Spikelets green, up to 12 together, in a small sessile, falsely lateral cluster.

v. distachyos (All.) Coss. et DR. : Glumes blackish-brown with 3-nerved green center. Spikelets fewer and longer than in type.

v. pallae (Kn.) Kükenth. : Glumes white and brown- variegated.

v. caespitosus C. B. Cl. : stems small curved, densely tufted ; inflorescence of a single spikelet.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds).

Last Update May 13^th, 2002.

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