''Rostkovia'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

in family

Juncaceae Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family. It consists of 8 genera and about 464 known species of slow-growing, rhizomatous, herbaceous monocotyledonous plants that may superficially resemble grasses and s ...

described as a genus in 1809. The genus is native to

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...

, southern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

, and various antarctic and

subantarctic The sub-Antarctic zone is a region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly to a latitude of between 46° and 60° south of the Equator. The subantarctic region includes many islands ...

islands. ; Species * '' Rostkovia magellanica'' (Lam.) Hook.f. - South Island of

Antipodes Islands The Antipodes Islands ( Maōri: Moutere Mahue; "Abandoned island") are inhospitable and uninhabited volcanic islands in subantarctic waters to the south of – and territorially part of – New Zealand. The 21 km2 archipelago lies 860 ...

,Jørgensen, P. M. & C. Ulloa Ulloa. 1994. Seed plants of the high Andes of Ecuador–A checklist. AAU Reports 34: 1–443 southern

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, southern

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

South Georgia Islands ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = , song = , image_map = South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in United Kingdom.svg , map_caption = Location of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Oce ...

* '' Rostkovia tristanensis'' Christoph. -

Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately from Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helena a ...

; Formerly included moved to other genera: ''

Marsippospermum ''Marsippospermum'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1809. The genus is native to New Zealand, southern South America, and Falkland Islands.Kirschner, J. & al. (2002). Juncaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the Wor ...

Patosia ''Patosia'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1890. The genus contains only one known species, ''Patosia clandestina'', native to southern South America (Chile, Argentina Argentina (), officially the Arge ...

'' * ''Rostkovia brevifolia'' Phil. - '' Patosia clandestina'' (Phil.) Buchenau * ''Rostkovia clandestina'' Phil. - '' Patosia clandestina'' (Phil.) Buchenau * ''Rostkovia gracilis'' Hook.f. 1844. - '' Marsippospermum gracile'' (Hook.f.) Buchenau * ''Rostkovia gracilis'' Phil. 1858 - '' Marsippospermum philippii'' (Buchenau) Hauman * ''Rostkovia grandiflora'' (L.f.) Hook.f. - '' Marsippospermum grandiflorum'' (L.f.) Hook. * ''Rostkovia novae-zelandiae'' Buchanan - '' Marsippospermum gracile'' (Hook.f.) Buchenau * ''Rostkovia reichei'' (Buchenau) Hosseus - '' Marsippospermum reichei'' Buchenau

References

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