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Cyperus digitatus
Also called Finger Flatsegde, Digitate Cyperus, Finger Flat Sedge
Cyperus digitatus, also known as finger flatsedge in the United States, and chang xiao sui suo cao in China, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
In Asia the renge of the plant extends from Pakistan in the west to the eastern sea board of China in the east and extends doen through most of Malesia. In Australia is found in creek beds and other damp areas in a small area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia as well as other northern tropical parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland. In the Americas it is found as far north as Texas with the range extending south through Central America and into South America as far south as Argentina. In Africa it is found as far north as Egypt south through the rest of the continent to Botswana.
Cyperus absconditicoronatus · Cyperus acholiensis · Tapertip flatsedge · Cyperus afroalpinus · Cyperus afrodunensis · Cyperus afromontanus · Cyperus afrovaricus · Inflatedscale flatsedge · Cyperus ajax · Cyperus alaticaulis · Cyperus albopilosus · Cyperus albopurpureus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyperus digitatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
