New York Metropolitan Flora

Genus: Scirpus

By Steven D. Glenn

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 04/10/2013

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Nomenclature

Scirpus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 47. 1753.

List of Scirpus Species

Scirpus cyperinus Scirpus polyphyllus Scirpus pendulus Scirpus longii Scirpus microcarpus Scirpus expansus Scirpus ancistrochaetus Scirpus atrovirens

References to Scirpus

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  • Britton, Nathaniel L. 1888. New or noteworthy North American phanerogams. I. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 97-104.
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  • Hicks, G. C. 1928. Chromosome studies in the Cyperaceae, with special reference to Scirpus. Bot. Gaz. 86: 295-317.
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  • Lentz-Cipollini, K. A.; Dunson, W. A. 2006. Abiotic features of seasonal pond habitat and effects on endangered northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus Schuyler, in central Pennsylvania. Castanea 71: 272-281.
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  • Miller, G. L. 1977. Early plant succession on a dredging spoils island in the Seneca River of upstate New York. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 104: 386-391. (58 spp.)
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  • Rossbach, G. B. 1936. Northeastward extensions in the Maine flora. Rhodora 38: 453-4.
  • Ruber, E.; Gillis, G.; Montagna, P. A. 1981. Production of dominant emergent vegetation and of pool algae on a northern Massachusetts salt marsh. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 108: 180-188.
  • Schuyler, A. E. 1967. A taxonomic revision of North American species of Scirpus. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 119: 295-323.
  • Schuyler, A. E. 1962. A new species of Scirpus in northeastern United States. Rhodora 64: 43-49.
  • Schuyler, A. E. 1962. Sporadic culm formation in Scirpus longii. Bartonia 32: 1-5.
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  • Schuyler, A. E. 1974. Scirpus cylindricus: An ecologically restricted eastern North American tuberous Bulrush. Bartonia 43: 29-37.
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