108 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1922 



Throughout the Philippines in open areas at low and medium altitudes. 

 Common in lawns, along roads, and in waste places. Pantropic. 



Local names: BarsaiTga (Ilk.) ; boto-botones (Bik.) ; galonalpas (Pamp.) ; 

 kusung (Pamp.) ; malaapulid (Pamp.) ; mota (Pamp.) ; mutha (Tag.) ; 

 omadiung (Pamp.); onoran (Pamp.); sur-sur (Pamp.); tarugug (Bik.). 



CYPERUS STOLON I FERUS Retz. Obs. 4 (1786) 10; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 

 (1828) 169; Boeck. in Linnaea 35 (1868) 489; Naves Novis. App. 

 (1882) 302; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 85. 

 Luzon (Rizal), Panay, McGregor 41, Copeland. In open places at low 



altitudes; rare and local. Tropical Asia to Mauritius, Formosa, and 



through Malaya to tropical Australia. 



CYPERUS UNCINATUS Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 7 (1806) 247; C. B. Clarke 



in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 82. 

 Cyperus cuspidatus HBK. Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 1 (1815) 204; Naves 



Novis. App. (1882) 301; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 155, 



Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 282. 

 Cyperus solutus Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 2 (1855) 14; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



3 (1856) 263; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 302. 

 Cyperus pusillus Nees in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 6 (1854) 27, 



non ? Vahl. 



Luzon (Bontoc, Benguet, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna), Mindanao (Lanao), 

 Merrill Phil. PI. 1488, Williams 1975bis, 1969bis, B. S. 19213 Ramos. In 

 open lands, old clearings, etc., at low and medium altitudes. Pantropic. 



Local name: Salasa (Tag.). 



CYPERUS ZOLLINGERI Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archipel. (1854) 62; 

 Syn. PI. Glum. 2 (1855) 17; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1856) 264; Naves 

 Novis. App. (1882) 302; C. B. Clarke in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) 

 Bot. 85; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 112. 

 Cyperus tenuiculmis Boeck. in Linnaea 36 (1869) 286; Scheff. in Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 34 (1874) 50; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 306. 

 Luzon (Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Benguet, Rizal, Sorsogon), Palawan, Pa- 

 nay, Mindanao, Elmer 16488, 6473, Merrill 7667, 9310, Phil. PI. 530, B. S. 

 82583 McGregor, 29513 Ramos & Edano, 1106, 4636, 7672, 7820 Ramos. In 

 open grasslands at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,600 m. Trop- 

 ical Asia and Africa through Malaya to tropical Australia. 

 Local names: Daat-laua (Tag.); pakama (Bag.). 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Cyperus bulbosus Vahl; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 

 Cyperus castaneus Willd.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cyperus cephalotes Vahl; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cyperus corymbosus Rottb.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 303. 

 Cyperus esculentus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 

 Cyperus eumorphus Steud.; Naves Novis App. (1882) 303. 

 Cyperus laevigatus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 301. 

 Cyperus. longus Linn.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 304. 



