Scirpus

Accepted species 52 Documented here 18 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
Scirpus sylvaticus L. 855 documented
Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth 745 documented
Scirpus microcarpus J.Presl & C.Presl 359 documented
Scirpus pendulus Muhl. 188 documented
Scirpus atrovirens Willd. 167 documented
Scirpus hattorianus Makino 74 documented
Scirpus atrocinctus Fernald 73 documented
Scirpus ternatanus Reinw. ex Miq. 70 documented
Scirpus radicans Schkuhr 46 documented
Scirpus georgianus R.M.Harper 27 documented
Scirpus pedicellatus Fernald 27 documented
Scirpus longii Fernald 23 documented
Scirpus lineatus Michx. 12 documented
Scirpus congdonii Britton 10 documented
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl 10 documented
Scirpus pallidus (Britton) Fernald 8 documented
Scirpus lushanensis Ohwi 7 documented
Scirpus expansus Fernald 4 documented
Scirpus maximowiczii C.B.Clarke 2 below the evidence gate
Scirpus wichurae Boeckeler 2 below the evidence gate
Scirpus × celakovskyanus Holub 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus × peckii Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus × prolifulcus Carse 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus × prolifundus Carse 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus ancistrochaetus Schuyler 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus angustisquamis Beetle 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus asiaticus Beetle 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus chunianus Tang & F.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus colchicus Kimer. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus dialgamensis Majeed Kak & Javeid 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus dichromenoides C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus diffusus Schuyler 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus divaricatus Elliott 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus flaccidifolius (Fernald) Schuyler 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus fragrans Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus fuirenoides Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus hainanensis S.M.Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus huae T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus kalmussii Aschers., Abrom. & Graebn. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus karuisawensis Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus kimsonensis N.K.Khoi 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus kunkelii Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus melanocaulos Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus mitsukurianus Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus molinianus Beetle 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus orientalis Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus petelotii Gross 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus polystachyus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus reichei Boeckeler 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus rosthornii Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus spegazzinianus Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Scirpus trachycaulos Phil. 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.