Bolboschoenus

Accepted species 18 Documented here 9 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 18 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla 535 documented
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Soják 129 documented
Bolboschoenus caldwellii (V.J.Cook) Soják 103 documented
Bolboschoenus robustus (Pursh) Soják 47 documented
Bolboschoenus laticarpus Marhold, Hroudová, Duchácek & Zákr. 44 documented
Bolboschoenus planiculmis (F.Schmidt) T.V.Egorova 28 documented
Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lam.) S.G.Sm. 15 documented
Bolboschoenus medianus (V.J.Cook) Soják 4 documented
Bolboschoenus yagara (Ohwi) Y.C.Yang & M.Zhan 3 documented
Bolboschoenus biconcavus (Ohwi) Horiuchi 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus capensis (Burm.f.) Holub 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus grandispicus (Steud.) Lewej. & Lobin 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus koshevnikovii (Litv.) A.E.Kozhevn. 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus mariqueter (Tang & F.T.Wang) Z.L.Xu 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus nobilis (Ridl.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus novae-angliae (Britton) S.G.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus schmidii (Raymond) Holub 0 below the evidence gate
Bolboschoenus stagnicola (Raymond) Soják 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.