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Cyperaceae taxon details

Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

To Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (Chaetospora nitens E00373564 possible type 1)
To Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (Chaetospora nitens E00373564 possible type 1)

1681501  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1681501)

  1. Biota
  2. Plantae (Kingdom)
  3. Viridiplantae (Subkingdom)
  4. Streptophyta (Infrakingdom)
  5. Tracheophyta (Phylum (Division))
  6. Spermatophytina (Subphylum (Subdivision))
  7. Magnoliopsida (Class)
  8. Lilianae (Superorder)
  9. Poales (Order)
  10. Cyperaceae (Family)
  11. Schoeneae (Tribe)
  12. Schoeninae (Subtribe)
  13. Schoenus (Genus)
  14. Schoenus nitens (Species)
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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Chaetospora nitens R.Br.) Brown, R. (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 per oras utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown; insertis passim aliis speciebus auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praesertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis. Vol. 1 pp. [i]-viii, 145-590 p., [1] h. ["Addenda"]. Londini [London]: typis Richardi Taylori et Scoii. Veneunt apud J. Johnson et Socios, in Caementerio Sancti Pauli., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6157371
page(s): 233 [details] 
Lectotype  (of Chaetospora nitens R.Br.) BM 000991005,...  
Lectotype (of Chaetospora nitens R.Br.) BM 000991005, geounit Western Australia [details]
Description Small perennial, with slender creeping rhizome. Culms erect, rigid, grooved, nodeless, 3–37 cm long, 0.5–1 mm diam....  
Description Small perennial, with slender creeping rhizome. Culms erect, rigid, grooved, nodeless, 3–37 cm long, 0.5–1 mm diam. Leaves with blade to 16 cm long; sheath red-brown, smooth or striate, shining; mouth glabrous; ligule present. Inflorescence head-like, loosely hemispherical, or reduced to 1 spikelet, erect, 0.2–1 cm diam.; lowest involucral bract to 6 cm long. Spikelets ovate, acute, 2- or 3-flowered, 3–5 mm long. Glumes 4–7, lowest 1–3 empty, broad-ovate, obtuse to broad-acute, red-brown to dark yellow-brown, ± shining, with glabrous, hyaline, red-dotted margins; fertile glumes 2.7–4 mm long. Bristles 6, plumose, about as long as nut. Stamens 3; anthers 1.5–1.7 mm long. Nut trigonous, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.1–1.6 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm diam., angles not ribbed, smooth or minutely and faintly scrobiculate, glabrous, shining, straw-coloured to golden brown. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 2: 77 1817 to Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 77 (1817),...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 2: 77 1817 to Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 77 (1817), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1681501 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature

original description (of Chaetospora nitens R.Br.) Brown, R. (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 per oras utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown; insertis passim aliis speciebus auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praesertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis. Vol. 1 pp. [i]-viii, 145-590 p., [1] h. ["Addenda"]. Londini [London]: typis Richardi Taylori et Scoii. Veneunt apud J. Johnson et Socios, in Caementerio Sancti Pauli., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6157371
page(s): 233 [details] 

basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype (of Chaetospora nitens R.Br.) BM 000991005, geounit Western Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Small perennial, with slender creeping rhizome. Culms erect, rigid, grooved, nodeless, 3–37 cm long, 0.5–1 mm diam. Leaves with blade to 16 cm long; sheath red-brown, smooth or striate, shining; mouth glabrous; ligule present. Inflorescence head-like, loosely hemispherical, or reduced to 1 spikelet, erect, 0.2–1 cm diam.; lowest involucral bract to 6 cm long. Spikelets ovate, acute, 2- or 3-flowered, 3–5 mm long. Glumes 4–7, lowest 1–3 empty, broad-ovate, obtuse to broad-acute, red-brown to dark yellow-brown, ± shining, with glabrous, hyaline, red-dotted margins; fertile glumes 2.7–4 mm long. Bristles 6, plumose, about as long as nut. Stamens 3; anthers 1.5–1.7 mm long. Nut trigonous, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.1–1.6 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm diam., angles not ribbed, smooth or minutely and faintly scrobiculate, glabrous, shining, straw-coloured to golden brown. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 2: 77 1817 to Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 77 (1817), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Scirpus nitens (R.Br.) Boeckeler)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (51 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Schoenus nitens) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus nitens (R.Br.) Boeckeler)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus nitens (R.Br.) Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (Chaetospora nitens E00373564 possible type 1) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (Chaetospora nitens E00688522 syntype 1) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (Chaetospora nitens E00688523 syntype 1) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Chaetospora nitens K000883748 type 1) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Chaetospora nitens K000883750 isolectotype 1) (from synonym Chaetospora nitens R.Br.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. BM000991004 type 1) 
To the Natural History Museum, London (Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. BM000991006 type 1) 
To the Natural History Museum, London (Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. BM000991007 type 1) 
To the Natural History Museum, London (Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. BM000991008 type 1) 
From editor or global species database
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