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Internal ID UUID643ff62b9630d212992657
Scientific name Cyperus niveus
Authority Retz.
First published in Observ. Bot. 5: 12 (1788)

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Language Common/alternative name
English snow white sedge
Chinese 南莎草

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Name Authority First published in
Cyperus niveus var. leucocephalus (Kunth) Fosberg Kew Bull. 31: 835 (1977)
Cyperus niveus var. niveus Unknown
Cyperus niveus var. tisserantii (Cherm.) Lye Nordic J. Bot. 3: 231 (1983)

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- Extinct
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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Djibouti
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Free State
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Lesotho
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Ivory Coast
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Aldabra
      • Madagascar
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Oman
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Yemen
    • China
      • China South-central
      • Tibet
    • Western Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Iran
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • Bangladesh
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Pakistan
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Myanmar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Malaya

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000378352
Tropicos 9900336
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305316-1
The Plant List kew-237710
Open Tree Of Life 3959578
Observations.org 318057
NCBI Taxonomy 2483204
IPNI 305316-1
iNaturalist 485225
GBIF 2716380
EPPO CYPNV
EOL 1121699
Elurikkus 289183
Wikipedia Cyperus_niveus

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Cyperus spp.: A Review on Phytochemical Composition, Biological Activity, and Health-Promoting Effects Taheri Y, Herrera-Bravo J, Huala L, Salazar LA, Sharifi-Rad J, Akram M, Shahzad K, Melgar-Lalanne G, Baghalpour N, Tamimi K, Mahroo-Bakhtiyari J, Kregiel D, Dey A, Kumar M, Suleria HA, Cruz-Martins N, Cho WC Oxid Med Cell Longev 07-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8443348
doi:10.1155/2021/4014867
PMID:34539969
Tackling Rapid Radiations With Targeted Sequencing Larridon I, Villaverde T, Zuntini AR, Pokorny L, Brewer GE, Epitawalage N, Fairlie I, Hahn M, Kim J, Maguilla E, Maurin O, Xanthos M, Hipp AL, Forest F, Baker WJ Front Plant Sci 09-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC6962237
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01655
PMID:31998342
Eco-Floristic studies of native plants of the Beer Hills along the Indus River in the districts Haripur and Abbottabad, Pakistan Bano S, Khan SM, Alam J, Alqarawi AA, Abd_Allah EF, Ahmad Z, Rahman IU, Ahmad H, Aldubise A, Hashem A Saudi J Biol Sci 27-Feb-2017
PMCID:PMC5936874
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2017.02.009
PMID:29740247
Ethnoveterinary Study of Medicinal Plants in a Tribal Society of Sulaiman Range Tariq A, Mussarat S, Adnan M, AbdElsalam NM, Ullah R, Khan AL ScientificWorldJournal 21-Oct-2014
PMCID:PMC4227385
doi:10.1155/2014/127526
PMID:25405212
Anti-Viral Activity of Indian Plants Dhawan BN Proc Natl Acad Sci India Sect B Biol Sci 18-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC7099914
doi:10.1007/s40011-011-0016-7
PMID:32226204

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