Costularia

Costularia is a plant genus in the family Cyperaceae.[1][2][3][4] It includes four distinct lineages:

  1. Costularia s.s. (11 subspecies) from Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands and Seychelles.
  2. Chamaedendron Larridon (five subspecies) from New Caledonia.
  3. a group largely conforming to subgenus, Lophoschoenus (eight subspecies) from New Caledonia and Malesia that are now considered to be part of a redelimited genus Tetraria, which are found on the island of Madagascar.
  4. the species Xyroschoenus hornei which is endemic to the Seychelles.

Costularia
Costularia sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Costularia
C.B.Clarke

List of species

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H. (2010). Cyperaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-466.
  4. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.


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