Family:
Cyperaceae Juss.

Scirpus Tourn. ex L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to S. South America.

Native to:

Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Borneo, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hainan, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Laos, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon

Introduced into:

New Zealand South

Scirpus Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3459] K001119455 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3459] K001119456 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3461], India K001119463 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3463], India K001119465 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3457] K001119451 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3462], India K001119464 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3461], India K001119461 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3457] K001119446 Yes
Telfair, C. [Cat. no. 3467], Mauritius K001119475 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3467], India K001119471 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3468] K001119476 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3457], India K001119448 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3469] K001119478 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3467], India K001119470 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3465], India K001119468 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3463], India K001119466 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3469], Nepal K001119479 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3461] K001119459 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3467], India K001119473 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3467] K001119474 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3467] K001119469 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3457], Myanmar K001119452 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Myanmar K001132699 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3469] K001119477 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3457] K001119450 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3461], India K001119462 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3467], Nepal K001119472 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3469] K001119480 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 4471], Myanmar K001039069 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3457] K001119445 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3469], India K001119481 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3457], India K001119453 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3456], Myanmar K001119444 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3457] K001119447 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3464] K001119467 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3461] K001119460 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3457], Nepal K001119449 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3460] K001119457 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3461] K001119458 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3458] K001119454 Unknown type material Yes

First published in Sp. Pl.: 51 (1753)

Accepted by

  • 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. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 446 (1902).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 47 (1753)

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0