Kyllinga
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Kyllinga
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Kyllinga is genus of flowering plants in the sedge family known commonly as spikesedges. They are native to tropical and warm temperate areas of the world, especially tropical Africa.[1][2][3] These sedges vary in morphology, growing to heights from 2 centimeters to a meter and sometimes lacking rhizomes. They are closely related to Cyperus species.[4]
The genus was named for the 17th century Danish botanist Peder Lauridsen Kylling.
Species include:
- Kyllinga brevifolia
- Kyllinga coriacea
- Kyllinga erecta
- Kyllinga exigua
- Kyllinga gracillima
- Kyllinga melanosperma
- Kyllinga nemoralis
- Kyllinga odorata
- Kyllinga planiculmis
- Kyllinga polyphylla
- Kyllinga pumila
- Kyllinga squamulata
- Kyllinga tibialis
- Kyllinga triceps
- Kyllinga vaginata
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 246, 水蜈蚣属 shui wu gong shu, Kyllinga Rottbøll, Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. 12. 1773.
- ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 23 Page 7, 193, Kyllinga Rottbøll, Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. 12, plate 4, fig. 3. 1773.
- ↑ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
