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Internal ID UUID643ff581c41b2241101240
Scientific name Cyperus esculentus
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 45 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Chlorocyperus aureus Palla ex Kneuck. Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 9: 69 (1903)
Chlorocyperus phymatodes (Muhl.) Palla Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 9: 69 (1903)
Cyperus aureus Ten. Fl. Napol. 3: 45 (1824)
Cyperus bahiensis Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 35 (1854)
Cyperus buchananii Boeckeler Beitr. Cyper. i. 4.
Cyperus bulamensis Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 19 (1854)
Cyperus callistus Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 2: 143 (1884)
Cyperus chrysostachys Boeckeler Flora 42: 438 bis (1859)
Cyperus damiettensis A.Dietr. Sp. Pl. 2: 269 (1833)
Cyperus esculentus var. angustispicatus Britton Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 211 (1886)
Cyperus esculentus subsp. aureus K.Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 135. 1890 (1890)
Cyperus esculentus var. cyclolepis Boeckeler ex Kük. Pflanzenr. IV, 20(101): 119. 1935
Cyperus esculentus var. hermannii Britton Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13(11): 211. 1886 [Nov 1886]
Cyperus esculentus var. leptostachyus Boeckeler Linnaea 36: 290 (1870)
Cyperus esculentus var. macrostachyus Boeckeler Linnaea 36: 291 (1870)
Cyperus esculentus var. phymatodes Kük. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 23: 185 (1926)
Cyperus esculentus var. sativus Boeckeler Linnaea 36: 290. 1870
Cyperus esculentus var. sprucei C.B.Clarke J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 181 (1884)
Cyperus fulvescens Liebm. Mexic. Halvgr. : 210 (1850)
Cyperus gracilescens Schult. Mant. 2: 100 (1824)
Cyperus gracilis Humb. ex Link Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1(3): 84 (1820)
Cyperus heermannii Buckley Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 10 (1863 publ. 1864)
Cyperus helodes Schrad. ex Nees Fl. Bras. 2(1): 37 (1842)
Cyperus hydra Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 205 (1816)
Cyperus lutescens Torr. & Hook. Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 433 (1836)
Cyperus melanorhizus Delile Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 3: 50 (1813)
Cyperus nervosus Bertol. Opusc. Sci. 3: 407 (1819)
Cyperus officinalis T.Nees Pl. Med. , Abbild.: t. 25, f. B (1830)
Cyperus pallidus Savi Cat. Piant. Egiz. : 23, 31
Cyperus phymatodes Muhl. Descr. Gram. : 23 (1817)
Cyperus repens Elliott Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 68 (1816)
Cyperus ruficomus Buckley Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 9 (1863 publ. 1864)
Cyperus sieberianus Link Hort. Berol. 1: 313 (1827)
Cyperus tenoreanus Schult. & Schult.f. Mant. 3(Add. 1): 544 (1827)
Cyperus tenorei C.Presl Fl. Sicul. : xliii (1826)
Cyperus tuberosus Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 52 (1813)
Cyperus variabilis Salzm. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 46 (1854)
Pterocyperus esculentus Opiz Seznam : 80 (1852)
Pycreus esculentus (L.) Hayek Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 30(3): 147 (1932)
Cyperus esculentus f. angustispicatus (Britton) Fernald Rhodora 44: 151 (1942)
Cyperus esculentus f. evolutus C.B.Clarke J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 180 (1884)
Cyperus esculentus var. helodes (Schrad. ex Nees) C.B.Clarke J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 181 (1884)
Cyperus esculentus var. lutescens Kük. ex Osten Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo , ser. 2, 3: 146 (1931)
Cyperus esculentus f. macrostachyus (Boeckeler) Fernald Rhodora 44: 151 (1942)
Cyperus esculentus f. princeps C.B.Clarke J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 179 (1884)
Cyperus phymatodes var. heermannii (Buckley) S.Watson Bot. California 2: 215 (1880)
Cyperus tenorianus Schult. Mant. 3(Add. 1): 544 (1827)
Cyperus gracilescens Roem. & Schult.

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Language Common/alternative name
English earth almond
English almendra de tierra
English yellow nutgrass
English txufleroide
English juncia de chufa
English hierba de nuez
English hierba de agua, txufleroide
English galingale comestible
English coquillo amarillo
English chufa
English watergrass
English tiger nut
English edible cyperus
English earth nut
English yellow nutsedge
Spanish chufa
Afrikaans geeluintjie
Akan atadwe
Arabic حب الزلم
Arabic حب العزيز
Arabic سعد لذيذ
Azerbaijani Çufa
Azerbaijani yer badamı
Azerbaijani yeməli topalaq
azb یئمهلی توپالاق
Bambara ncɔkɔn
Tibetan ཆུ་འབྲུམ།
Catalan esculentus
Catalan amande de terre
Catalan xufera
Catalan xufes
Catalan xufla
Catalan xuflaire
Catalan xufa
Czech šáchor jedlý
dag nansaɣili
German erdmandel
German amande de terre
German chufa
German chufanuss
German erdmandelgras
German tigernuss
Basque bedaur
Persian اویار سلام زرد
French amande de terre
French souchet comestible
French choufa
French noix tigrée
Galician xunca doce
Hausa aya
Hebrew גומא נאכל
Hebrew אגוז נמר
Italian zigolo dolce
Italian chufa
Japanese ショクヨウガヤツリ
Lithuanian amande de terre
Latvian čufa
Latvian zemesmandele
Norwegian Bokmål jordmandler
Dutch knolcyperus
Dutch aardamandel
Dutch tijgernoot
nv tłʼohigaaí
Polish cibora jadalna
Polish migdał ziemny
Polish czufa
Portuguese chufa
Russian Чуфа
Russian Земляной миндаль
Russian Сыть съедобная
srn affo
Swedish jordmandel
Swedish amande de terre
Thai แห้วไทย
Turkish yer bademi
Ukrainian Чуфа
Ukrainian Смикавець їстівний
Ukrainian Чува
Ukrainian Мигдаль земляний
Ukrainian Земляний горіх
Uzbek yerbodom
Chinese 黄香附
Chinese 铁荸荠
Chinese 油莎草
Chinese 油莎豆
Chinese 黃土香

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000372964
UNII HQE30C75NZ
Florida Plant Atlas 1729
Canadensys 5211
USDA Plants CYES
Tropicos 9901112
INPN 93924
Flora of Italy 8075
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:300668-2
The Plant List kew-236532
Plantarium 12373
Open Tree Of Life 362401
Observations.org 6675
NCBI Taxonomy 1053340
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0200003712
Nature Serve 2.131266
IUCN Red List 164083
IPNI 304436-1
iNaturalist 76584
GBIF 2716226
Freebase /m/05_rh2
WisFlora 3325
EPPO CYPES
EOL 1121991
Calflora (Californian flora) 2583
US Library of Congress sh95003408
USDA GRIN 12901
Wikipedia Cyperus_esculentus

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_030179965.1 Ces_v0.1 Scaffold Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences 2023-06-06 309.0x 282.88 Mb

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Distribution, characterization and chemical management of noxious shrub weed (Dichapetalum stuhlmannii Engl) in cashew in southeastern Tanzania Mbasa WV, Kapinga FA, Nene WA, Kabanza AK, Makale AR, Ngiha KN, Bashiru RA Heliyon 22-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10987930
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28207
PMID:38571648
Synthesis of eco-friendly layered double hydroxide and nanoemulsion for jasmine and peppermint oils and their larvicidal activities against Culex pipiens Linnaeus Radwan IT, Khater HF, Mohammed SH, Khalil A, Farghali MA, Mahmoud MG, Selim A, Manaa EA, Bagato N, Baz MM Sci Rep 22-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10959945
doi:10.1038/s41598-024-56802-y
PMID:38519561
Distribution of rhizosphere fungi of Kobresia humilis on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Guo J, Xie Z, Meng Q, Xu H, Peng Q, Wang B, Dong D, Yang J, Jia S PeerJ 20-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10885805
doi:10.7717/peerj.16620
PMID:38406296
Functional and Antioxidative Characteristics of Soft Wheat and Tiger Nut (Cyperus esculentus) Flours Binary Blends Nedviha S, Harasym J Foods 16-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10887602
doi:10.3390/foods13040596
PMID:38397573
Dormancy break, sprouting and later tuber reproduction in response to different tuber sizes of tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) Liu B, Li H, Chen W, Wang Y, Chen Y, Wei X R Soc Open Sci 14-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10864778
doi:10.1098/rsos.231616
PMID:38356873
Effects of Dietary Tuber Ethanolic Extract of Nut Grass (Cyperus rotundus Linn.) on Growth, Immune Response, and Disease Resistance in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Wigraiboon S, Panchan R, Luang-In V, Ounjit W, Panase P, Sookying S, Sutthi N Animals (Basel) 02-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10854675
doi:10.3390/ani14030503
PMID:38338145
Variability of the Main Economically Valuable Characteristics of Cyperus esculentus L. in Various Ecological and Geographical Conditions Kon’kova NG, Khoreva VI, Popov VS, Yakusheva TV, Malyshev LL, Solovyeva AE, Shelenga TV Plants (Basel) 20-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10818283
doi:10.3390/plants13020308
PMID:38276771
Integrative Analysis of Oleosin Genes Provides Insights into Lineage-Specific Family Evolution in Brassicales Zou Z, Zhang L, Zhao Y Plants (Basel) 18-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10820149
doi:10.3390/plants13020280
PMID:38256833
Evaluation of Inference Performance of Deep Learning Models for Real-Time Weed Detection in an Embedded Computer Mwitta C, Rains GC, Prostko E Sensors (Basel) 14-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10819251
doi:10.3390/s24020514
PMID:38257609
Casearia tomentosa fruit extracts exposed larvicidal activity and morphological alterations in Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus under in vitro and semi field conditions Mandal P, Chandra G BMC Res Notes 02-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10762963
doi:10.1186/s13104-023-06663-x
PMID:38167220
Comparing the effects of Cyperus esculentus hydroethanolic extract and Euterpe oleracea on reproductive efficacy against cadmium-induced testicular toxicity in male rats Khafaji SS J Adv Vet Anim Res 27-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10868703
doi:10.5455/javar.2023.j724
PMID:38370884
Austrian farmers perception of new weeds Glaser M, Essl F, Follak S Plant Environ Interact 18-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10840368
doi:10.1002/pei3.10129
PMID:38323127
Preparation and characterization of soluble dietary fiber from tiger nut residues, showing enhanced antioxidant activity and metal-ion-binding properties Wang W, Quan Z, Kou F, Zhang S, Cao L, Zhang Z Front Nutr 12-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10754513
doi:10.3389/fnut.2023.1275473
PMID:38156276
Tiger nut/coconut dietary intervention as antidotal nutritional remediation strategy against neurobehavioural deficits following organophosphate-induced gut-brain axis dysregulation in mice Enye LA, Edem EE, Onyeogaziri LI, Yusuf A, Ikpade BO, Ikuelogbon DA, Kunlere OE, Adedokun MA Toxicol Rep 09-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10772296
doi:10.1016/j.toxrep.2023.12.003
PMID:38193024
Heritable responses to stress in plants Kovalchuk I Quant Plant Biol 07-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10753343
doi:10.1017/qpb.2023.14
PMID:38156078

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Fatty acid esters
Ethyl palmitate 12366 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)OCC 284.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/JSFA.5846
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Quinone and hydroquinone lipids / Vitamin E compounds / Tocopherols
Covi-ox 6560141 Click to see CC1=C(C2=C(CCC(O2)(C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)C)C(=C1O)C)C 430.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-8524(96)00068-5
> Organic oxygen compounds / Organooxygen compounds / Carbohydrates and carbohydrate conjugates / Glycosyl compounds / O-glycosyl compounds
alpha-Maltose 439341 Click to see C(C1C(C(C(C(O1)OC2C(OC(C(C2O)O)O)CO)O)O)O)O 342.30 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-8524(96)00068-5
Sucrose 5988 Click to see C(C1C(C(C(C(O1)OC2(C(C(C(O2)CO)O)O)CO)O)O)O)O 342.30 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-8524(96)00068-5

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