Bulbostylis tenuifolia(Rudge) J.F.Macbr.

WFO wfo-0000342376 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bulbostylis tenuifolia, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. a Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / 2008-09-12 / obs. 401282
Bulbostylis tenuifolia, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. b Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 406584
Bulbostylis tenuifolia, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. c Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 406585
Bulbostylis tenuifolia, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. d Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 406583
Bulbostylis tenuifolia, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. e Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 406586

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00918860
Filed as
Bulbostylis tenuifolia (Rudge) J.F.Macbr.
Det. by
R. Kral 2001-01-01
Collected
W. R. Anderson 1973-04-03
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Bulbostylis tenuifolia is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Bulbostylis tenuifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bulbostylis capillaris var. tenuifolia (Rudge) C.B.Clarke
  • Fimbristylis bufonia (Kunth) Alain
  • Isolepis asperiuscula Kunth
  • Isolepis bufonia Kunth
  • Isolepis tenuifolia (Rudge) A.Dietr.
  • Oncostylis tenuifolia (Rudge) Nees
  • Scirpus asperulus Poir.
  • Scirpus bufonis (Kunth) Poir.
  • Scirpus bufonius Poir.
  • Scirpus bufonius (Kunth) Spreng.
  • Scirpus capillaris var. tenuifolia (Rudge) Pilg.
  • Scirpus fuscus Willd. ex Kunth
  • Scirpus humilis Link
  • Scirpus humilis Vell.
  • Scirpus tenuifolius Rudge
  • Stenophyllus capillaris f. bufonia (Kunth) H.Pfeiff.
  • Stenophyllus capillaris subsp. tenuifolius (Rudge) H.Pfeiff.
  • Stenophyllus tenuifolius (Rudge) Britton
  • Stenophyllus tenuifolius f. asperula (Kunth) H.Pfeiff.
  • Stenophyllus tenuifolius f. bufonia (Kunth) H.Pfeiff.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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