Botany
Agor is a tufted, slender, glabrous, rather flaccid annual sedge, 40 to 60 centimeters in height. Leaves are basal, distichous, up to 40 centimeters long. Umbels are decompound, rather lax and diffuse, 6 to 10 centimeters long. The spikelets are small, globose, 2 to 2.5 millimeters long, pale or brown, mostly slenderly pedicelled, some sessile. Nuts are obovoid, straw-colored or ivory, 0.3 to 0.5 millimeter long.

Distribution
- Ubiquitous paddy weed throughout the Philippines in open, wet places.
- Pantropic.

Properties
- Agor is one of the most harmful weeds in rice fields. It is very competitive with rice, becoming widespread in new areas of rice production. Roots spread vigorously, growing between rice roots and seriously competing with nutrients.

Parts used
Leaves

Uses
Folkloric
- Malays use leaves for poulticing in fever.
- Tribe in central India use the roots for dysentery.
Others
- Fodder: Eaten by cattle, seeds pass through the digestive tract mostly undigested, germinating near droppings.

Availability
Wild-crafted.