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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Bulbostylis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Poales > Family: Cyperaceae

About 100 species (mainly tropical Africa and America), with 23 species native to southern Africa, and one naturalised.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Bulbostylis abortiva

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis boeckeleriana

 

Bulbostylis buchananii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis burchellii

 

Bulbostylis collina

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis contexta

Bulbostylis densa

 

Bulbostylis densiflora

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis filamentosa

 

Bulbostylis hispidula

 

Bulbostylis humilis

 

Bulbostylis macra

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis megastachys

 

Bulbostylis mucronata

 

Bulbostylis oritrephes

 

Bulbostylis parvinux

 

Bulbostylis pilosa

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis pusilla

 

Bulbostylis scabricaulis

 

Bulbostylis schlechteri

 

Bulbostylis schoenoides

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Bulbostylis scleropus

 

Bulbostylis trabeculata

 

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Bulbostylis barbata