''Juncus maritimus'', known as the sea rush, is a species of
rush that grows on coastlines. It is sometimes considered
conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organis ...
with ''
Juncus kraussii''.
It has a wide distribution across the western
Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sib ...
(all of Europe, western Asia and the
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
).
According to
Edward Catich
Edward M. Catich (1906–April 14, 1979) was an American Roman Catholic priest, teacher, and calligrapher. He is noted for the fullest development of the thesis that the inscribed Roman square capitals of the Augustan age and afterward owed their ...
the ancient Egyptians used ''Juncus maritimus'' as a brush for writing. He describes the process of making one: “the end of which
he rushwas cut at a slant and its fibers split by chewing to produce a small chisel-shaped ‘brush‘.”.
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maritimus
Plants described in 1789
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Flora of Europe
Flora of Sweden
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