The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera – the largest being the "true sedges", with over 2,000 species.
Fimbristylis is a genus of sedges. A plant in this genus may be known commonly as a fimbry or fimbristyle. There are 200 to 300 species distributed worldwide. Several continents have native species but many species have been introduced to regions where they are not native. Some are considered weeds. These are typical sedges in appearance, with stiff, ridged stems and cone-shaped terminal panicles of spikelets. They are found in wet environments, and are most diverse in tropical and subtropical regions.
Lepidosperma is a genus of flowering plant of the family Cyperaceae. Most of the species are endemic to Australia, with others native to southern China, southeast Asia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Carex siderosticta is a species of sedge native to East Asia. It is the only species of Carex known to produce "pseudo-lateral" culms, which appear to be lateral, but derive from the apical meristem. It is the type species of Carex subg. Siderosticta.
Schoenus is a predominately austral genus of sedges, commonly known as bogrushes, or veldrushes in South Africa. Species of this genus occur mainly in South Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Others are found in scattered locations worldwide, from Europe to Asia, North Africa and the Americas. Three species occur in the peatlands of southern South America, including S. antarcticus which is found in Tierra del Fuego, where it forms a component of hyperhumid Magellanic moorland.
Actinoschoenus is a genus of the sedge family. According to a 2021 taxonomic revision based on molecular data, it is considered to consist of two species, namely Actinoschoenus aphyllus (Vahl) Larridon and Actinoschoenus repens J.Raynal. Reference databases Plants of the World Online and the World Flora Online Plantlist also consider Actinoschoenus yunnanensis (C.B.Clarke) Y.C.Tang to be part of the genus. Previously, Actinoschoenus was circumscribed more widely, and also included five species native to Australia:
Actinoschoenus arthrostyloides, commonly known as hairy actinoschoenus, is flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia throughout parts of the Kimberley region.
Jeremy James Bruhl is an Australian botanist. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England and director of the N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium which holds c.110,000 plant specimens.
Homoranthus clarksonii is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It is an upright shrub with pointed, linear leaves and pairs of creamy pink to pale yellow flowers which turn pink as they age. It is only known from small populations on Mount Mulligan.
Karen Louise Wilson is an Australian botanist.
Schoenus quartziticus is a species of sedge endemic to the Agulhas Plain region of the Western Cape Province in southern South Africa.
Schoenus compar is a species of sedge endemic to southern South Africa.
Schoenus pictus is a species of sedge endemic to the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is a species usually found on mountain slopes.
Russell Lindsay Barrett is an Australian botanist.
Lepidosperma asperatum is a sedge that is endemic to Western Australia. It was first described in 1941 by Georg Kükenthal as Lepidosperma leptostachyum var. asperatum, but was elevated to species status in 2012 by Karen Wilson and Russell Barrett.
Schoenus aureus is a species of sedge endemic to the western mountains of the Western Cape Provinces of South Africa.
Anthelepis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae, and was first described in 2019 by the Australian botanists, Russell Barrett, Karen Wilson and Jeremy Bruhl.
Morelotia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae. It contains six species of sedges native to New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, Tubuai Islands, and Western Australia.
Anthelepis guillauminii is a plant in the Cyperaceae family, first described in 1938 by Georg Kükenthal as Schoenus guillauminii, with the current name being given in 2019 as belonging to the new genus, Anthelepis by Russell Barrett, Karen Wilson and Jeremy Bruhl. The species is native to New Caledonia.
Anthelepis paludosa is a plant in the Cyperaceae family, first described in 1810 by Robert Brown as Chaetospora paludosa, with the current name bein g given in 2019 with a reassignment to the new genus, Anthelepis, by Russell Barrett, Karen Wilson and Jeremy Bruhl. The species is native to New South Wales and Queensland.
