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    Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering...
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    It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus (plural: papyri or papyruses) can also refer to a document written...
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    Cyperus alternifolius, the umbrella papyrus, umbrella sedge or umbrella palm, is a grass-like plant in the large genus Cyperus of the sedge family Cyperaceae...
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    sedge), formerly called C. diffusus) Cyperus haspan Cyperus longus Cyperus papyrus (papyrus) Some Cyperus species are used in folk medicine. Roots of Near...
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    from papyrus, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant...
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    plant is the Egyptian lotus, and the Lower Nile plant is the Papyrus Sedge (Cyperus papyrus), although it is not nearly as plentiful as it once was, and...
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  • up papyrus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus. Papyrus...
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    from papyrus, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant...
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    Prominent C4 sedges include culturally important species such as papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) and chufa (C. esculentus) but also purple nutsedge (C. rotundus)...
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    water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) and the papyrus sedge (Cyperus papyrus), from which the writing material papyrus was made. This family also includes cotton-grass...
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    undisturbed Cyperus papyrus and reed beds of Phragmites and Typha. Although their distribution largely seems to correspond with the distribution of papyrus in...
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    outcomes. The dating of the text also varies. Papyrus Westcar is a reused papyrus made of the plant Cyperus papyrus. The scroll of Westcar has been separated...
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    etymologically derived from Latin papyrus, which comes from the Greek πᾰ́πῡρος (pápūros), the word for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like...
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    the nymph Cyane. On its banks are present spontaneous grows of papyrus (Cyperus papyrus), probably sent to Hiero II of Syracuse by the Egyptian ruler Ptolemy...
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    (Glyceria maxima) Small-reed (Calamagrostis species) Paper reed or papyrus (Cyperus papyrus), the source of the Ancient Egyptian writing material, also used...
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    America Media related to Cyperus articulatus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Cyperus articulatus at Wikispecies Cyperus articulatus in West African...
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    The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BC (the late Second Intermediate Period...
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    of Cyperus species Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Jepson Manual Treatment Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 240, 断节莎 duan jie suo, Cyperus odoratus...
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    less neutral pH, low conductivities and total alkalinity. Typha and Cyperus papyrus swamps, fed by a mix of surface streams, groundwater seeps or warm...
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  • The species of papyrus used in the creation of the writing materials is Cyperus papyrus. There are various methods to safely store papyrus collections....
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    parasitoid of Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) larvae from Cyperus papyrus L. in Southern Africa"[permanent dead link](PDF). Journal of the Entomological...
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    similar to paper from papyrus, which Joshua Mark states is the foundation for modern paper. Papyrus is a plant (cyperus papyrus) which grew in plentiful...
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    was used to write on scrolls of papyrus—a thin material made from beating together strips of pith from the Cyperus papyrus plant—as well as on small ceramic...
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    roots) Vossia cuspidata (deep flooded, superficial/floating roots) Cyperus papyrus (deep flooded, superficial/floating roots) Typha domingensis The first...
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    tops of the hills, elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.), Cyperus papyrus, African water lily etc. in the swamps and evergreen forests with trees...
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    camellia display, as well as Camellia sinensis, Ceratonia siliqua, Cyperus papyrus, Ficus carica, Gossypium arboreum, Laurus nobilis, Olea europaea, Phoenix...
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    polycephalus), from the bulrushtypes sedge grass (Schoenoplectus lacustris, Cyperus papyrus, Typha (Typha domingensis, syn. Thypha angustata) (bulrush or cattail)}...
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    zonata Cryptocoryne zukalii Cuphea anagalloidea Cyperus alternifolius Cyperus helferi Cyperus papyrus Damasonium alisma Didiplis diandra (Water hedge)...
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    (2003). "Effects of habitat degradation on avian guilds in East African papyrus Cyperus papyrus L. swamps." Bird Conservation International, 13: 283–297....
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  • seepweed Typha orientalis, a species of cattail Zizania latifolia Cyperus papyrus, papyrus Echinochloa pyramidalis, antelope grass Ficus verruculosa, water...
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