Rhynchospora nitens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Cyperaceae
Subfamilia: Cyperoideae
Tribus: Rhynchosporeae
Genus: Rhynchospora
Species: Rhynchospora nitens

Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl)A.Gray, Manual, ed. 5: 568 (1867).

Basionym
- Scirpus nitens Vahl, Enum. Pl. Obs. 2: 272 (1805).
Homotypic
- Isolepis nitens (Vahl) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 117 (1817).
- Dichromena nitens (Vahl) Kunth, Enum. Pl. 2: 282 (1837).
- Psilocarya nitens (Vahl) Alph.Wood, Amer. Bot. Fl.: 364 (1870).
Heterotypic
- Psilocarya rhynchosporoides Torr., Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 361 (1836).
- Psilocarya texensis Torr., Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 361 (1836).
- Scirpus carolinianus Panz. ex Kunth, Enum. Pl. 2: 282 (1837).
- Rhynchospora texensis (Torr.) Boeckeler, Linnaea 37: 602 (1873).
- Psilocarya portoricensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 43: 387 (1915).
- Rhynchospora nitens var. hispaniolica Kük., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 32: 76 (1933).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- - Alabama; Florida; Georgia; Indiana; Louisiana; Masachusettes; Michigan; Mississippi; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina ; South Carolina; Texas; Virginia
Continental: Southern America
- - Belize; Cuba; Delaware; Dominican Republic; Guyana; Honduras; Nicaragua; Puerto Rico

Gray, A. 1867. A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States including the district east of the Mississippi and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, arranged according to the natural system. 5th edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman. 701 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.56618 Reference page. : ed. 5: 568.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Rhynchospora nitens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 20. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Rhynchospora nitens. Published online. Accessed: Feb 20 2020.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Rhynchospora nitens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 20. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Rhynchospora nitens. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 20 Feb 2020.

English: shortbeak beaksedge