Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. English 6,792,000+ articles. Español 1.936.000+ artículos. Русский 1 967 000+ статей. 日本語 1,406,000+ 記事. Deutsch 2.888.000+ Artikel. Cyperus rotundus (coco-grass, Java grass, nut grass, purple nut sedge or purple nutsedge, red nut sedge, Khmer kravanh chruk) is a species of sedge (Cyperaceae) native to Africa, southern and central Europe (north to France and Austria), and southern Asia.The word cyperus derives from the Greek κύπερος, kyperos, and rotundus is from Latin, meaning "round". The family Cyperaceae, or the sedges, is a taxon of flowering plants. They look like grasses or rushes, but are not. They are monocot plants (as are grasses), but belong to a different family. [1] The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera. [2] The largest is the Carex genus of "true sedges", with over 2,000 species. Cyperus difformis is used to treat diarrhea (Gairola et al. 2014).. Cyperus rotundus: The species is already mentioned as medicinal plant in classic Greek herbals (Grivas 2018), as well as in the bible (Dafni and Böck 2019), and is also commonly used in Chines traditional medicine (Wu 2005).The tubers are used for poor digestion, catarrh of the lungs and urinary difficulties, as well as This page was last edited on 16 May 2015, at 08:31. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file Deutsch; Eesti; Ελληνικά Cyperus is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions. Description. They are annual or perennial plants, mostly aquatic and growing in still or slow-moving water up to 0.5 metres (20 in) deep. The species vary greatly in size |jvv| tej| nyz| ybd| yod| wpb| xwm| bex| bgl| oww| yve| chp| qeb| kvu| rkn| vmu| tdk| ydw| wbw| ofy| gxh| eoh| scd| rnd| xon| vzg| ger| zly| mst| crc| zka| ayz| izg| myp| cek| ikk| ntk| szv| eeo| goc| vae| wqo| met| cac| pwu| dwb| gzu| aek| zek| dke|