Cyperus hemisphaericus

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Rhizomes, Root, Bulb

Rhizomes - raw or cooked as a vegetable. Often treated as a food that is only eaten when better foods are not available.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows in seasonally wet grasslands and savannahs. It can grow in arid places.

Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A perennial sedge in the Cyperaceae family with rhizomes, roots, and bulbs, native to tropical regions where it grows in seasonally wet grasslands and savannahs and can tolerate arid conditions. It is used as a famine food.

Wikipedia

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Cyperus hemisphaericus is a species of sedge that is endemic to eastern parts of Africa.

Other Information

A famine food.

Names & Synonyms

Mariscus hemisphaericus (Boeck.) C. B. Clarke

References (2)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 16th April 2011]
Simpson, D. A. & Inglis, C. A., 2001, Cyperaceae of Economic, Ethnobotanical and Horticultural Importance: A checklist. Kew Bulletin Vol. 56, No. 2 (2001), pp. 257-360

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