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Cyperus capitatus

Species of sedge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cyperus capitatus
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Cyperus capitatus, known as capitate galingale or sand galingale[2] is a species of sedge that is native to coasts of the Mediterranean and close by; it has no subspecies.

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Colony in the sand

It was first formally described by Domenico Vandelli in 1771.[3]

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Description

An unmistakable Cyperus growing in coastal sands, spreading by scaly undersand roots, with leaves mostly at the stem base, that are large, thick, blue-grey and U-shaped (often both broad and narrow-curled ones), and with bracts under the flowers resembling the leaves but with widened bases. The flowers form a single agglomerated head of spikelets, with the floret glumes large, broad (5-8 x 2.5-4 mm), membraneous-edged, with conspicuous tip points (mucro 1-3 mm).[4][5]

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Range and habitat

Mediterranean coastal sands, dunes and slacks and some coasts close by - Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Western Sahara, Yugoslavia. [1]

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