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
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Costularia
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List of species
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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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