Assignment/exercise
USC Plant Profile - Cyperaceae, Cyperus polystachyos
University of the Sunshine Coast
2022
Appears in UniSC Plant Profiles
Abstract
Habitat and General Distribution: Usually growing in damp habitats including shores, swamps, wetlands, swales between dunes, pastures, but also thriving in neglected areas including: roadside ditches and waste areas (JAM, 2011; n/a, 2012). Found nationwide in states all territories and states but South Australia and Tasmania, commonly along the coastline (Paczkowska, 1993; Wilson, 1994, 1993). Cyperus polystachos is also native to Africa, southern/eastern Asia, North and Central America, the Caribbean and South America (n/a, 2012).
A tufted annual or perennial the grass like plants with trigonous to triquetrous culms reaching up to 80 cm in height (n/a, 2012; Wilson, 1994). Flowering from December to July the Cyperus polystachos is easily distinguishable by its elongated cluster of spikelets which appear in a triangular pattern (n/a, 2012; Wilson, 1994). Flower spikelets are bisexual and self pollinate (JAM, 2011). The simple fruit (achenes) are light brown, oblong in shape and 1 mm long (JAM, 2011), form and drop from January to late May (Paczkowska, 1993). Reproduction and dispersal occurs primarily by seed, as the seeds are easily spready by water or in mud attached to animals or vehicles (n/a, 2012). Like most sedges the Cyperus polystachos has a strong and short
Details
- Title
- USC Plant Profile - Cyperaceae, Cyperus polystachyos
- Authors
- Liam Everson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Location
- Latitude: -27.319 Longitude: 153.054
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date collected
- 04-Apr-2022
- Date published
- 2022
- Copyright note
- © The Author. Reproduced with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99708797502621
- Output Type
- Assignment/exercise; Plant Profile Sheet
- Teaching and Learning
- ENS221; Plant Diversity and Ecology
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