Scleria pergracilis — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves

The strongly lemon-scented leaves are eaten with salt. The fruit is also edible.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. It occurs from sea level to 1500 m. It is normally on open slopes and near the edges of swamps. It grows in wet grass savannah.

Africa, Asia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinée, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG, SE Asia, Sierra Leone, West Africa,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei, Bhutan, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Nauru, New Zealand, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palau, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

An annual sedge. It has slender tufted erect stems 50 cm long with rigid flat leaves. A small 3 sided nut is produced on the flower at the top.

How to Grow

It grows wild.

Names & Synonyms

Hypoporum pergracile Nees

References (5)

Ambasta S.P. (Ed.), 2000, The Useful Plants of India. CSIR India. p 560
French, B.R., 1986, Food Plants of Papua New Guinea, A Compendium. Asia Pacific Science Foundation p 384
Powell, J.M., Ethnobotany. In Paijmans, K., 1976, New Guinea Vegetation. Australian National University Press. p 111
Simpson, D. A. & Inglis, C. A., 2001, Cyperaceae of Economic, Ethnobotanical and Horticultural Importance: A checklist. Kew Bulletin Vol. 56, No. 2 (2001), p. 342
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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