Cyperus exaltatus

• Botanical Name : Cyperus exaltatus Retz.
• Synonyms : Cyperus canaliculatus Retz., Cyperus venustus R.Br.
• Common Name : Ghodachio Dungaro
• Plant Family : Cyperaceae
• Plant Form : Sedges
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Sarita Udyan

About Cyperus exaltatus Plant :

• Habit : A large glabrous sedge with no stolons, root-fibres stout, stems obtusely trigonous.
• Leaves : Few, longer or shorter than the stem, linear, finely acuminate, 1-nerved, multistriate, with more or less scaberulous margins.
• Inflorescence and Flowers :
  • Umbel compound, rays 5-10, bracts 3-6, leaf-like.
  • Spikelets ascending, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, chestnut-brown, much compressed, 8-16 flowered.
  • Glumes closely imbricate ovate-oblong, mucronate.
  • Stamens 3, anthers 0.1 cm long, yellow.
  • Stigmas 3, rather shorter than the style, capillary, exserted.
• Fruit : Nut ellipsoid, tapering to both ends, trigonous, brown or yellow.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : September onwards.
• Significance : Useful for paper making.