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Scleria secans

Botanic Family

Cyperaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Urban

Common Names

• Razor Grass

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerias
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Santa Catarina - Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• riverine forest
• secondary forest
• woodland
• marshland
• seasonally inundated forest
• streamside
• thickets
• coastal
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Sep
• Nov All year (Nic) Oct-May (Puerto Rico) Sep (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec All year (Nic) Oct-May (Puerto Rico) Sep (Colombia)

Sometimes climbing perennial rhizomatous herb to 7m with angular scabrous stems. Leaves to 300mm x 8mm, hirsute above, hirsute to glabrous beneath with vicious cutting edges. Terminal & axillary panicles to 60mm x 50mm, pilose spikelets to 6mm long, yellow-green or purple flowers. 5mm long pubescent white achenes sometimes with greenish spots, nut 3mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• SAFIO
• Kew