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Family • Cyperaceae
Mañgilang
Mariscus sieberianus Nees.
TALL SEDGE
Zhuan zi miao

Scientific names Common names
Cyperus cyperoides (L.) Kuntze. Kupiupi (Sub.)
Cyperus cyplindrostachys Boeck. Mañgilang (Sub.)
Kyllinga sumatransis Retz. Okokiang (Bon.)
Mariscus sieberianus Nees. Flat sedge (Engl.)
Mariscus sumatrensis (Retz.) J. Raynal Tall sedge (Engl.)
Mariscus umbellatus Nees.  
Mariscus umbellatus Vahl.  
Scirpus cyperoides L.  
Zhuan Zi miao (Engl.)  

Other vernacular names
INDONESIA: jukut bebalean (Sundanese), suket lumbungan (Javanese), tetemung (southern Sumatra).
JAPANESE: Inu kugu.
KOREAN: Bang dong sa ni a jae bi.
MALAYSIA: menderong ekur tupai, rumput janggut baung, rumput mesiyang (Peninsular).
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: kaiga (Ialibu, Southern Highlands)
THAILAND: yaa rang-kaa (Loei).

Botany
Mañgilang is a perennial sedge with short rhizomes. Stems are glabrous, 25 to 70 centimeters long. Leaves are often nearly as long as the stems, 3 to 5 millimeters broad. Umbels are simple, 2.5 to 12 centimeters in diameter. Rays are 5 to 12, 2.5 to 8 centimeters long, ultimately straight. Spikes are solitary, cylindric, about 2.5 centimeters long. Spikelets are linear-lanceolate, bearing 1 to 2 nuts which are trigonous and chesnut-colored.

Distribution
- In old clearings, open grasslands, etc., at low and medium altitudes from northern Luzon to Palawan and Mindanao, in most or all islands and provinces.
- Pantropic.

Constituents
- Cyprerus cyperoides has yielded tricin and luteolin as well as cyperaquinones.

Properties
- Anthelmintic, which may be due to cyperaquinines (quinones such as plumbagin).

Parts used
Whole plant.

Uses
Edibility
- In China, roots and seeds made into flour.
Folkloric
- In Indonesia, used to expel worms from the intestine.
Others
- Fodder: Sometimes used as fodder.
- Occult: Some occults uses in Papua, New Guinea.
- Ceremonial: In Kenya, C. cyperoides used to bless cows.

Studies
• No studies available.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Last Update February 2013
IMAGE SOURCE: / Line drawing / Cyperus cyperoides / Manual of the Alien Plants of Belgium / Click on image to go to souce page / Allen Plants Belgium
OTHER IMAGE SOURCE: / Photo: File:Cypress cyperoides inukugu02.jpg / Author;Keisotyo / 2008,10.25;Tanabe City, Wakayama prefecture, Japan /GNU Free Documentation License / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Famine foods / Cyperaceae / Robert Freedman
(2)
Mariscus sumatrensis (Retz.) J. Raynal / Chinese name and synonyms / Catalogue of Life, China
(3)
Medicinal Plants of China, Korea, and Japan: Bioresources for Tomorrow's / Christophe Wiart / Google Books
(4)
Cyperus cyperoides (L.) O. Kuntze / Article Source: Nguyen Khac Khoi, 1999. Cyperus cyperoides (L.) O. KuntzeIn: de Padua, L.S., Bunyapraphatsara, N. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors). Plant Resources of South-East Asia No. 12(1): Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, p. 226 / Proseanet.org

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