Cyperaceae
Bulbostylis

Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B.Clarke

First published in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 652 (1893)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Canada to Tropical America. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome. It is used as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Colombia, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin

Introduced into:

Hawaii

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1997). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 5: 1-98. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Knapp, W.M. & Naczi, R.F.C. (2021). Vascular plants of Maryland, USA. A comprehensive account of the state's botanical diversity. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 113: 1-151.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Powell, A.M. & Worthington, R.D. (2018). Flowering plants of Trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent areas: 1-1444. BRIT Press.
  • Rothrock, P.E. (2009). Sedges of Indiana and adjacent states: the non-Carex species: 1-271. Indiana Academy of Sciences.
  • Silveira, G.H. & Longhi-Wagner, H.M. (2008). Cyperaceae Juss. no Morro Santana - Porto Alegre e Viamåo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia: Botânica 63: 295-320.
  • de Moura Júnior, E.G. & al. (2015). Updated checklist of aquatic macrophytes from Northern Brazil. Acta Amazonica 45: 111-132.

Kew Bulletin

  • (1893: 652).
  • Barros, M. (1941). NotasCiperológicas. Darwiniana 5: 178 – 183.
  • Barros, M. (1945). CiperáceasArgentinas 4. GénerosFimbristylis, Bulbostylis, Fuirena, Dichromena, Schoenus, Oreobolus, Carpha, Rhynchospora, Scleria and Uncinia. Anales Mus. Argent. Ci. Nat. “Bernardino Rivadavia” 41: 323 – 479.
  • Barros, M. (1947). Cyperaceae. In: H. Descole (ed.), Genera et Species Plantarum Argentina 4: 273 – 297. In aedibus Guillermo Kraft ltda., BonisAuris.
  • Barros, M. (1960). Las Ciperáceas del Estado de Santa Catalina. Sellowia 12: 282 – 291.
  • Boeckeler, O. (1890). Beiträgezurkenntniss der Cyperaceen, Heft II. Varel. a.d.Jade.
  • Britton, N. L. (1894). New and noteworthy North American phanerogams — VIII. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 27 – 34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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  • Clarke, C. B. (1893). Cyperaceae. In: J. D. Hooker (ed.), Flora of British India 6: 585 – 672. L. Reeve, London.
  • Clarke, C. B. (1901). Cyperaceae. In: R. Chodat & E. Hassler (eds), Plantae Hasslerianae, enumeration des plantesrécoltées au Paraguay par le Dr Emile- Hassler of 1885 à 1902. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: 440.
  • Clarke, C. B. (1903). Cyperaceae. In: R. Chodat & E. Hassler (eds), Plantae Hasslerianae, enumeration des plantesrécoltées au Paraguay par le Dr Emile- Hassler of 1885 à 1902. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 1018 – 1019.
  • Fernald, M. L. (1938). Noteworthy plants of Southeastern Virginia. Rhodora 40: 364 – 423.
  • Grisebach, A. (1879). SymbolaeadFloramArgentinam. Abh. KöniglGes. Wiss. Göttingen 19: 313.
  • Guaglianone, E. R. (1996). Cyperaceae. In: F. O. Zuloaga & O. Morrone (eds), Catálogo de las plantasvasculares de la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60: 130 – 133.
  • Hauman, L. & Vanderveken, G. (1917). Catalogue des Phanerógames de I’ Argentine. Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 29: 206.
  • Hooker, J. D. (1900). Cyperaceae. In: H. Trimen, A handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 5: 66 – 68. Dulau, London.
  • Lindman, C. A. M. (1900). List of RegnellianCyperaceae collected until 1894. Bih. Kongl. SvenskaVetensk. Akad. Handl. Band 26. Afd. 3, 9: 20.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species Plantarum 2. ImpensisLaurentiiSalvii, Holmiae.
  • Macbride, J. F. (1931). Spermatophytes, mostly peruvian III. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 11, Pub 288: 5.
  • Maury, P. M. (1889). Flore du Paraguay. Cypéracées. Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 31: 134 – 141.
  • Osten, C. (1931). Las Ciperáceas del Uruguay. Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo 2: 184 – 193.
  • Pedersen, T. M. (1968, publ. 1969). Cyperaceae. In: A. L. Cabrera (ed.), Fl. Prov. Buenos Aires, Colecc. Ci. Inst. Nac. Tecnol. Agropecu. 4: 362 – 368.
  • Roemer, J. J. & Schultes, J. A. (1817). SystemaVegetabilium 2. Stuttgardiae.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1997). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 5: 1-98. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • de Moura Júnior, E.G. & al. (2015). Updated checklist of aquatic macrophytes from Northern Brazil. Acta Amazonica 45: 111-132.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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