The Cyperaceae, a cosmopolitan family of sedges ... thereby suggesting new avenues for utilising these plants in food production and land rehabilitation [1]. Concurrently, research integrating ...

This week’s column is devoted to a certain plant family, and especially a certain genus within the family. This would be the family named “Cyperaceae,” an enormous group, in terms of number ...

Cyperaceae, as the collective family is known, has 88 genera. Each genus is like an individual family's surname, and explains how the plant world's Smiths and Jones are related. Need a break?