Scleria ciliarisNees

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WFO wfo-0000549132 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Scleria ciliaris, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-10 / obs. 120611329
Scleria ciliaris, photographed by portioid
fig. b portioid, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37406817
Scleria ciliaris, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 120611362

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Scleria ciliaris is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Caroline Is. China SoutheastHainanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueensland Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Scleria ciliaris, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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 5 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.

  • Scleria bancana Miq.
  • Scleria bancana var. nana Ridl.
  • Scleria chinensis Kunth
  • Scleria malaccensis Boeckeler
  • Scleria scrobiculata Moritzi

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.