Botanical name: Cyperus pilosus    Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Synonyms: Duval-jouvea pilosa, Cyperus paniculatus, Cyperus piptolepis

Fuzzy Flatsedge is a perennial grass-like herb with stems solitary, triquetrous, winged above, smooth or scabrous, 30100 cm high, up to 6 mm in diameter. Leaves are shorter than to as long as stems, 4-12 mm wide. Flower-culsters are compound, with 3-10 primary branches up to 15 cm long, or rarely almost spherical; spikes ovoid to cylindrical, 2-3 cm long, 1-2 cm diameter, with densely bristly axis; involucral bracts leaf-like, 3-5 much longer than inflorescence. Spikelets are flattened, 6-25 per spike, 6-12 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide in side view, 7-40-flowered; rachilla not winged, persistent. Glumes are blunt, with sides 2- or 3-nerved, 2-2.5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, straw-coloured to red-brown, with broad whitish margins above. Fuzzy Flatsedge is found in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to E. Australia, at altitudes up to 2100 m. In India it is seen in Western Ghats and East Himalaya. Flowering: May-November.

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