Machaerina

Accepted species 52 Documented here 8 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 52 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
Machaerina sinclairii (Hook.f.) T.Koyama 113 documented
Machaerina angustifolia (Gaudich.) T.Koyama 76 documented
Machaerina juncea (R.Br.) T.Koyama 72 documented
Machaerina articulata (R.Br.) T.Koyama 35 documented
Machaerina rubiginosa (Biehler) T.Koyama 35 documented
Machaerina tenax (Hook.f.) T.Koyama 26 documented
Machaerina teretifolia (R.Br.) T.Koyama 20 documented
Machaerina iridifolia (Bory) T.Koyama 6 documented
Machaerina anceps (Poir.) Bojer 2 below the evidence gate
Machaerina complanata (Berggr.) T.Koyama 2 below the evidence gate
Machaerina tetragona (Labill.) T.Koyama 2 below the evidence gate
Machaerina mariscoides (Gaudich.) J.Kern 1 below the evidence gate
Machaerina acuta (Labill.) J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina arthrophylla (Nees) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina aspericaulis (Kük.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina austrobrasiliensis M.T.Strong 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina ayangannensis M.T.Strong 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina bidwellii (Stapf ex Setch.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina cubensis (Kük.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina deplanchei (Boeckeler) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina disticha (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina effusa (Griseb.) M.T.Strong 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina ekmanii (Kük.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina ensifolia (Boeckeler) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina ensigera (Hance) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina falcata (Nees) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina ficticia (Hemsl.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina filifolia Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina flexuosa (Boeckeler) J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina glomerata (Gaudich.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina gunnii (Hook.f.) J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina hirta Boeckeler 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina huttonii (Kirk) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina insularis (Benth.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina johnsonii (K.L.Wilson) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina lamii (Kük.) J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina laxa (Nees) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina maingayi (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina milnei (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina montana (J.Raynal) Lye 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina monticola (Guillaumin) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina muelleri (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina myriantha (Chun & F.C.How) Y.C.Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina nuda (Steud.) J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina nukuhivensis (F.Br.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina planifolia (Benth.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina preissii (Nees) L.A.S.Johnson & Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina raiateensis (J.W.Moore) S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina restioides (Sw.) Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina scirpoidea (Steud.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina vaginalis (Benth.) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Machaerina veillonis (J.Raynal) K.L.Wilson 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.