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Kyllinga brevifolia
(Cyperaceae)

Mullumbimby couch, green kyllinga, green water sedge, short kyllinga

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Species description or overview

Kyllinga brevifolia information from PIER
Information on Kyllinga brevifolia as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Kyllinga brevifolia
Nomenclatural information about Kyllinga brevifolia is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Kyllinga brevifolia
Nomenclatural information about Kyllinga brevifolia is provided by ITIS.

Kyllinga brevifolia information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Kyllinga brevifolia--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.


Impacts

Kyllinga brevifolia (Cyperaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Kyllinga brevifolia as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).


Images

Kyllinga brevifolia information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Kyllinga brevifolia in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Kyllinga brevifolia images from PIER
Images of Kyllinga brevifolia provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Distribution

Kyllinga brevifolia information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Kyllinga brevifolia in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Kyllinga brevifolia information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Kyllinga brevifolia--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.


Where to see this species

Auwahi - Dry forest of Maui
Images, history, and ethnobotany of Auwahi are on the HEAR website.


Books

Weed handbook of Western Polynesia
Whistler, W. Arthur. 1983. Weed handbook of Western Polynesia. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft f#r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. ISBN: 3-88085-227-8.


Full-text articles

Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research
Stone, Charles P., Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (eds.) . 1992. Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit. ISBN: 0-8248-1474-6.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.

Phenology, reproductive potential, seed dispersal and predation, and seedling establishment of three invasive plant species in a Hawaiian rain forest
Medeiros, A.C. 2004. Phenology, reproductive potential, seed dispersal and predation, and seedling establishment of three invasive plant species in a Hawaiian rain forest. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.


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