Perennial herb ; up to 20 cm high with a slender creeping rhizome . Stems (culms) erect , solitary and spaced along the rhizome , green , trigonous , glabrous . Leaves shorter than stems ; leaf sheaths 1–7 cm long , greyish , sometimes reddish , scarious ; leaf blade linear , flat , ± keeled , sometimes folded , grooved along midrib , margins smooth , apex acute . Inflorescences of a single dense head , yellowish to dark brown or blackish , small , globose or ovoid ; spikelets 2 mm , lanceolate , 1-flowered ; glumes 2 , ovate , apex acuminate , mucronate , keeled , yellow-green . Fruits nut , compressed , obovoid , beaked , yellowish , black when mature , minutely papillose . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb.
No data
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Shortleaf Spikesedge
Green Kyllinga
Mullumbimby Couch
Perennial Greenhead Sedge
Kyllinga Weed
Not recorded yet. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.nzpcn.org.nz *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
