Bolboschoenus

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Bolboschoenus
B. yagara infructescences
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Bolboschoenus
(
Hallier & Brand[1]
Type species
Bolboschoenus maritimus [2]
Synonyms[3][2]
  • Reigera
    Opiz
  • Scirpocyperus
    Ség.
  • Scirpus sect. Bolboschoenus Asch. (basionym)

Bolboschoenus is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution.[3][4][5] Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads.[6][7]

Accepted species

References

  1. ^  Palla's treatment of Ascherson's Scirpus sect. Bolboschoenus, which he ranked as the genus Bolboschoenus, was published in Synopsis der Deutschen und Schweizer Flora, enthaltend die genauer bekannten phanerogamischen gewächse, so wie die cryptogamischen gefäss-pflanzen, welche in Deutschland, der Schweiz, in Preussen und Istrien wild wachsen, Edition 3. 2531. 1905. Hallier & Brand, Leipzig. Plant Name Details for Genus Bolboschoenus. Retrieved August 8, 2010. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^
    Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden
    . Retrieved August 8, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ^ Hroudová, Z., Gregor, T. & Zákravsky, P. (2009). Die verbreitung von Bolboschoenus-Arten in Deutschland. Kochia 4: 1-22.
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