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Cyperus laevigatus L.

Synonyms

Acorellus laevigatus, Acorellus pallae, Chlorocyperus junciformis, Chlorocyperus laevigatus, Cyperus careyi, Cyperus cossyrensis, Cyperus incurvus, Cyperus juncellus, Cyperus junciformis, Cyperus lateralis, Cyperus leucostachys, Cyperus maritimus, Cyperus monostachyos, Cyperus mucronatus, Cyperus pleuranthus, Cyperus reptans, Cyperus rivularis, Cyperus roxburghianus, Cyperus roxburghii, Cyperus subaphyllus, Cyperus submonastichyus, Cyperus teretifolius, Cyperus uliginosus, Cyperus viridulus, Juncellus laevigatus, Juncellus lateralis, Pycreus laevigatus, Pycreus lateralis

Common names

Smooth flatsedge

Extract from Wikipedia article

Cyperus laevigatus is a species of sedge known by the common name smooth flatsedge.

Clump of smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) taken from a spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, October 23, 2015

Compact heads with spikelets growing sideways of smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) taken from a spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, October 23, 2015

Smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) growing in a desert spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, October 31, 2015
Bu Samra Rd, Qatar

Smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) growing in a desert spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, January 22, 2016
Bu Samra Rd, Qatar

Spikelet of smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) growing in a desert spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, January 22, 2016
Bu Samra Rd, Qatar

Spikelets of smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) growing in a desert spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, January 22, 2016
Bu Samra Rd, Qatar

Masses of smooth flatsedge (Cyperus laevigatus) growing in a desert spring of Qulmat Al Maszhabiya in Al Mashabiya Reserve near Abu Samra. Southern Qatar, January 22, 2016
Bu Samra Rd, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Cyperus laevigatus, Wikipedia article
• Cyperus laevigatus from www.theplantlist.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.