Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 73 botanical countries
Not drawn on the map: Socotra, Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto, Gilbert Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.
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.
Flowering 140 in flower of 150 examined
Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Cyperus mindorensis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 140 of 150 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 23 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 curvispiculosus T.Koyama
- Cyperus kyllingia f. humilis (Boeckeler) Kük.
- Cyperus kyllingia f. subtriceps (Kunth) Kük.
- Cyperus kyllingia f. tenuis (Boeckeler) Kük.
- Cyperus kyllingia var. latifolius (Boeckeler) Kük.
- Cyperus leucocephalus Hassk.
- Cyperus sesquiflorus f. latifolius (Boeckeler) Kük.
- Kyllinga cephalotes Druce
- Kyllinga curvispiculosa (T.Koyama) P.H.Hô
- Kyllinga gracilis Zoll.
- Kyllinga intermedia Seem.
- Kyllinga mindorensis Steud.
- Kyllinga monocephala Stokes
- Kyllinga monocephala var. humilis Boeckeler
- Kyllinga monocephala var. latifolia Boeckeler
- Kyllinga monocephala var. subtriceps Kunth
- Kyllinga monocephala var. tenuis Boeckeler
- Kyllinga nemoralis (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Dandy ex Hutch. & Dalziel
- Kyllinga nemoralis var. subnemoralis Wad.Khan & Sardesai
- Kyllinga planiculmis C.B.Clarke ex Cherm.
- Kyllinga planiculmis var. mucronata Cherm.
- Scirpus cephalotes Jacq.
- Thryocephalon nemorale J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol KYNE. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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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