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Internal ID UUID643ff6b071a7e616208186
Scientific name Cyperus unicolor
Authority Boeckeler
First published in Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1879-1880: 24 (1879)

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It is a perennial plant that grows in wet areas such as marshes, swamps, and riverbanks. It has a single stem that can reach up to 1.5 meters in height. The leaves are long and narrow with a pointed tip. The flowers are small and yellow-green in color. The plant is used in traditional medicine for treating a variety of ailments. It is also used as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Cyperus unicolor is a species of sedge native to South America. It is a perennial plant with a single stem that can reach up to 1.5 meters in height. The leaves are long and narrow with a pointed tip, and the flowers are small and yellow-green in color. It grows in wet areas such as marshes, swamps, and riverbanks. The plant is used in traditional medicine for treating a variety of ailments, and also as an ornamental plant in gardens. It was first formally described by the botanist Johann Otto Boeckeler in 1879.

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil South
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Paraguay
      • Uruguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia

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World Flora Online wfo-0000384406
Tropicos 9900602
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:306255-1
The Plant List kew-238946
Open Tree Of Life 3959784
IPNI 306255-1
GBIF 2715241
EOL 1121419
Wikipedia Cyperus_unicolor

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