With the objective of evaluating the competitive effect of Cyperus esculentus on the growth and production of the culture of irrigated rice, experiments were installed in green house, in the Experimental Station of the School of Agronomy - UNITINS, in Gurupi, State of Tocantins, Brazil. The statistical design used in the experiments was a factorial plot 5x4 with three replications, completely randomized. The treatments consisted of five periods of coexistence of the rice with Cyperus esculentus (15, 25, 35, 45 and 60 days after the emergency - D.A.E, of the rice) and four densities of C. esculentus (0, 2, 4 and 8 tuber/pots) corresponding to 0; 71; 142 e 286 plants of Cyperus/m2, respectively. In the end of each period the following parameters in the rice culture were appraised: dry matter of plants/pot; leaf area/plant; tiller/pot dry matter; tiller/pot number and height of plants. The results showed that the effect of the of C. esculentus, was more pronounced in the densities of four and eight tuber/pot, in the periods of coexistence of 45 and 60 D.A.E. The most affected parameter was the dry matter of plant/pot, as a result of the reduction of the tiller/pot number. The height of the plants of irrigated rice was not affected by the presence of the weed in any coexistence period.
Weed; Oryza sativa; interference