Lipocarpha chinensis

Lipocarpha chinensis (Osbeck) J.Kern, Blumea, Suppl. 4: 167 1958. (syn: Cyperus lipocarpha T.Koyama; Cyperus submaculatus T.Koyama; Hypaelyptum argenteum Vahl [Illegitimate]; Hypaelyptum senegalense (Lam.) K.Schum.; Hypolytrum albidum Willd. ex Kunth; Hypolytrum argenteum Kunth; Hypolytrum laevigatum (Roxb.) Spreng.; Kyllinga albescens Steud.; Lipocarpha argentea (Kunth) R.Br. [Illegitimate]; Lipocarpha bawangensis R.H.Miau; Lipocarpha debilis Ridl.; Lipocarpha humboldtiana Nees [Illegitimate]; Lipocarpha laevigata (Roxb.) Nees; Lipocarpha senegalensis (Lam.) T.Durand & H.Durand; Rikliella chinensis (Osbeck) M.R.Almeida; Scirpus chinensis Osbeck; Scirpus senegalensis Lam.; Tunga laevigata Roxb.);

Culms 40-65 cm high, 2 mm thick. Leaves 10-20 x 0.5 cm, stiff; margins scabrid towards the apex; bracts to 8 cm long. Spikelets 0.5-1 x 0.5 cm, obtuse; glumes 2.5 x 1 mm, obtusely acute, keeled, yellow or pale brown. Nut 1.2 x 0.4 mm, obtuse, hardly triquetrous, brown.

Flowering and fruiting: October-November

Marshy areas in grasslands and stagnant pools

Pantropical

(From India Biodiversity Portal

Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi

Lipocarpia chinensis is distributed in Africa, tropical and temperate Asia, and Australia. In India it is found in Assam, Andra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

It is an annual and sometimes a perennial plant. It is a commonly seen plant growing abundantly in ditches, in open marshes places, in seasonally flooded plains, forest clearings and in the rice fields.

Citation:

Rehel, S. 2013. Lipocarpha chinensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 July 2014.