Juncus littoralisC.A.Mey.

WFO wfo-0000776792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / 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.

Juncus littoralis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. a Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-09 / obs. 98563444
Juncus littoralis, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. b Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 9431570
Juncus littoralis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98563428
Juncus littoralis, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. d Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 9431572
Juncus littoralis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. e Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98563419

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4320761
Filed as
Juncus littoralis C.A.Mey.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Juncus littoralis is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaBulgariaFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Juncus littoralis, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY

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 19 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.

  • Juncus acutomaritimus E.Mey.
  • Juncus acutus prol. tommasinii (Parl.) Rouy
  • Juncus acutus subsp. littoralis (C.A.Mey.) Feinbrun
  • Juncus acutus subsp. tommasinii (Parl.) Arcang.
  • Juncus acutus subsp. tyraicus (Pacz.) I.Grint.
  • Juncus acutus unranked gallicus Asch. & Graebn.
  • Juncus acutus unranked microcarpus Loret & Barrandon
  • Juncus acutus unranked tyraicus Pacz.
  • Juncus acutus var. gallicus (Asch. & Graebn.) Rouy
  • Juncus acutus var. heldreichianus (T.Marsson ex Buchenau) Rouy
  • Juncus acutus var. littoralis (C.A.Mey.) Trautv.
  • Juncus acutus var. microcarpus (Loret & Barrandon) Husn.
  • Juncus acutus var. tommasinii (Parl.) Buchenau
  • Juncus acutus var. tommasinii (Parl.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Juncus adriaticus Gand.
  • Juncus littoralis subsp. tyraicus (Pacz.) Novikov
  • Juncus tommasinii Parl.
  • Juncus tyraicus Novikov
  • Juncus tyraicus (Pacz.) V.I.Krecz. & Gontsch.

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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