''Ficinia'' is a genus of tufted or rhizomatous
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'' ...
s in the family
Cyperaceae. There are around 70 recognised species in
Africa
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, four species (''
Ficinia ambigua'', ''
Ficinia anomala'', ''
Ficinia nodosa
''Ficinia nodosa'', the knotted club-rush or knobby club-rush, is a Rhizome, rhizomatous Perennial plant, perennial in the family Cyperaceae, native to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Widespread in the Southern Hemisphere, ''Ficinia no ...
,'' and ''
Ficinia spiralis'') that occur in
New Zealand
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and a single species ''Ficinia nodosa'' that occurs in
Australia.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Levyns, Margaret Rutherford Bryan. 1947. Journal of South African Botany 13: 68]
References
Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae genera
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