Cyperus crassipesVahl

WFO wfo-0000370499 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Tim Hirsch
fig. a Tim Hirsch, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-04 / obs. 65661378
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Hlengiwe Mtshali
fig. b Hlengiwe Mtshali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 39726299
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Tim Hirsch
fig. c Tim Hirsch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65660988
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. d Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15531964
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Viken
fig. e Viken, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63994939
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Andrew Deacon
fig. f Andrew Deacon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 15710302
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Viken
fig. g Viken, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63994957
Cyperus crassipes, photographed by Matthew Blissett
fig. h Matthew Blissett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12821919

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Cyperus crassipes is native: Angola, Benin, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo AngolaBeninCape ProvincesCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLiberiaMadagascarMauritaniaMozambiqueNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaTanzaniaTogo Cape Verde
Native distribution of Cyperus crassipes, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Cape Provinces CPP
Cape Verde CVI
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyperus brevis Boeckeler
  • Cyperus cephalostachyus Steud.
  • Cyperus chisimajensis Chiov.
  • Cyperus congestus var. brevis (Boeckeler) Kük.
  • Cyperus frerei C.B.Clarke
  • Cyperus heterophyllus Boeckeler
  • Cyperus jardinei Steud.
  • Cyperus maritimus Poir.
  • Cyperus maritimus var. crassipes (Vahl) C.B.Clarke
  • Cyperus maritimus var. gracilescens Kük.
  • Cyperus scirpoides Vahl
  • Mariscus congestus var. brevis (Boeck.) C.B.Clarke

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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