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Lepidosperma chinense

Lepidosperma chinense
Photo: Earth100, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
SE. China to Indo-China and New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lepidosperma chinense, also known as the Chinese scaleseed sedge, is a plant widely distributed across Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam.

It is common in Hong Kong.

Other Lepidosperma plants

Lepidosperma amantiferrum · Lepidosperma angustatum · Lepidosperma asperatum · Lepidosperma avium · Lepidosperma benthamianum · Lepidosperma bungalbin · Hoary Rapier Sedge · Lepidosperma concavum · Riverside Sword Sedge · Tall Sword Sedge · Common Rapier Sedge · Coast Sword Sedge

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidosperma chinense 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.

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