''Lepironia'' is a genus of the sedge family, comprising only one species, ''Lepironia articulata'', known as the grey sedge.Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It is found in Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, southern China, Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indochina, Indonesia), New Guinea, and various islands of the western Pacific ( Ryukyu Islands, Caroline Islands,

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, Tonga,

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). It also occurs in northern and eastern Australia, as far south as

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in New South Wales.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Green Straw

Lepironia has the potential to be a green straw or zero waste drinking straw: in Vietnam and Indonesia, the process of producing straws is not difficult, merely cleaning the stems of plants and allowing them to dry in the sun. Lepironia straws offer a solution for the dilemma of using plastic straws.

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Cyperaceae Monotypic Cyperaceae genera Flora of New Guinea Flora of Asia Flora of Madagascar Flora of Australia {{Cyperaceae-stub