Fairly slender , dwarf annual , up to 16 cm tall with a minute root system , smelling strongly of fenugreek when dried . Stems (culms) crowded and tufted , 5-20 cm tall , 3-sided , almost glabrous , not swollen at the base . Leaves basal , alternate , flat to V-shaped in cross-section , shorter or about as long as the stems ; leaf sheath greenish , rather wide ; leaf blade linear , flat , slightly scabrid to glabrous , apex acuminate . Inflorescence a simple anthela , consisting of 1–2 sessile spikes and 1–7 stalked spikes ; spikelets in dense spikes , linear , yellowish green to reddish brown , flattened , squarrose with recurved glume-apices , 5-15-flowered ; glumes reddish-brown , tipped green , elliptic . Fruits nutlet dark grey , narrowly oblong to obovoid , triangular , minutely papillose , disarticulating at its base but held by persistent glume so that it falls with the spikelet . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Chlorocyperus inflexus (Muhl.) Palla
Cyperus aristatus Rottb.
Dichostylis squarrosa (L.) Palla
Isolepis echinulata Kunth
Mariscus squarrosus (L.) C.B.Clarke
Pycreus squarrosus (L.) Nees
Scirpus lappaceus Lam.
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Awned Flatsedge, Awned Umbrella-Sedge
Bearded Flatsedge
Not recorded yet
*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 *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. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
