Browning, J., Gordon-Gray, K.D., Lock, M., Beentje, H., Vollesen, K., Bauters, K., Archer, C., Larridon, I., Xanthos, M., Vorster, P., Bruhl, J., Wilson, K. & Zhang, X. (2020) Cyperaceae Flora Zambesiaca 14 1-455
Annual or perennial herbs. Perennials with a woody rhizome. Culms with leaves and nodes throughout. Leaves usually flat. Ligule present, tubular. Inflorescence paniculate, consisting of 1-several clusters of spikelets or compound corymbs of spikelets, the inflorescence branches usually hairy. Spikelets of numerous overlapping glumes, the 2 lowest sterile, the upper with bisexual flowers. Glumes spirally arranged, sometimes 5-ranked, pubescent with the midrib excurrent into a mucro. Perianth segments 3 or 6, sometimes 0, sometimes in 2 whorls of differing type. Stamens 2-3. Stigmas 3. Nutlet sessile, triangular, obovoid. Derivation of name: Jørgen Fuiren (Georgius Fuirenius), 1581-1628, Danish physician, botanist and plant collector. Worldwide: 30 species in warm regions of the world. Mozambique: 17 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abnormalis C.B. Clarke | T | |
| bullifera J. Raynal & Roessler | M | |
| ciliaris (L.) Roxb. | N,Z,MS,GI,M | |
| claviseta Peter | MS | |
| hirsuta (P.J. Bergius) P.L.Forbes | M | |
| leptostachya Oliv. | MS | |
| microcarpa Lye | ? | |
| obcordata P. L. Forbes | GI,M | |
| ochreata Kunth | MS | |
| pachyrrhiza Ridl. | MS | |
| pubescens (Poir.) Kunth | MS | |
| stricta Steud [Agg] | N,Z,MS | Image |
| stricta Steud. var. stricta | Z,MS | Image |
| stricta Steud. subsp. chlorocarpa (Ridley) Lye | N,MS | |
| umbellata Rottb. | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| welwitschii Ridl. | MS | |
| zambesiaca Lye | N,MS |