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Cyperus scariosus
Also called Nut Grass
Cyperus scariosus is a perennial herbaceous plant from Australia and New Guinea.
In parts of India, the name is commonly misapplied to Cyperus pertenuis.
It occurs in Papua New Guinea and Australia. It is not known from the Indian subcontinent. There are a four collections of C. pertenuis from Myanmar and Bangladesh, and the species was thus once thought to be native to these countries, such as in a database maintained by Rafaël Govaerts in the early 2000s, which has caused someone maintaining the Plants of the World database to now incorrectly claim the species is introduced in these two countries. The distributional status of this species or C. pertenuis in Java is unclear.
An essential oil called cypriol or nagarmotha oil is distilled from the roots. Cypriol has an aroma described as
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 scariosus 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.
