Cyperus leptocladus Kunth is a plant in the Cyperaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Cyperus leptocladus Kunth

Cyperus leptocladus Kunth is a southern African sedge species formally described in 1837 by Carl Sigismund Kunth.

Family

Cyperaceae

Genus

Cyperus

Order

Poales

Class

Liliopsida

About Cyperus leptocladus Kunth

Cyperus leptocladus Kunth is a species of sedge native to areas of Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, and Botswana within southern Africa. Botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth first gave this species its formal scientific description in 1837.

Photo: (c) Felix Riegel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Felix Riegel · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Poales › Cyperaceae › Cyperus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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