''Cyperus ossicaulis'' is a species of
sedge
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...
that is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to an area in central
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.
The species was first
formally described by the botanist
Kåre Arnstein Lye
Kåre Arnstein Lye (9 March 1940 – 24 March 2021) was a Norwegian botanist and field biologist.
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name.
Lye was born in Bryne in south western Norway and studied at ...
in 1996.
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See also
* List of ''Cyperus'' species
References
ossicaulis
''Ossicaulis'' is a ditypic genus of mushrooms in the family Lyophyllaceae.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed in 1985 to contain the species originally described as ''Agaricus lignatilis'' by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1801. This was consid ...
Plants described in 1996
Flora of Somalia
Taxa named by Kåre Arnstein Lye
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