- palmeira-umbela (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
- papiro-anão (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
- planta-umbela (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
- sombrinha-chinêsa (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
Native
Africa
-
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Somalia,
Sudan
-
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Uganda
-
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi,
Rwanda,
Zaire
-
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
-
SOUTHERN AFRICA:
South Africa
[KwaZulu-Natal]
-
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar,
Mauritius,
Reunion
Asia-Temperate
-
ARABIAN PENINSULA:
Saudi Arabia,
Yemen
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics & subtropics)
Naturalized
Africa
-
MACARONESIA:
Cape Verde,
Portugal,
[Azores]
Spain
[Canary Islands]
-
NORTHERN AFRICA:
Egypt,
Morocco
-
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin
Asia-Temperate
-
CHINA:
China (s.)
-
EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
-
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Pakistan,
Sri Lanka
-
INDO-CHINA:
Thailand
-
MALESIA:
Indonesia,
Philippines
Australasia
Northern America
-
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[Florida,
Louisiana]
-
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States
[Texas]
-
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[California]
-
NORTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico
[Baja Norte,
Chihuahua,
Nuevo Leon,
Sinaloa,
Sonora,
Tamaulipas]
-
SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico
[Chiapas,
Colima,
Federal District,
Jalisco,
Morelos,
Oaxaca,
Tabasco,
Veracruz,
Yucatan]
Pacific
-
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States
[Hawaii]
-
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
French Polynesia
[Society Islands]
-
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Fiji
Southern America
-
CARIBBEAN:
Jamaica,
Puerto Rico
-
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Costa Rica
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- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
- Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
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- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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- Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. (L Argent)
Check other web resources for Cyperus alternifolius L. :
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=410346. Accessed 19 April 2018.