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of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''

Bolboschoenus caldwellii ''Bolboschoenus caldwellii'', commonly known as marsh club rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Australia and New Zealand.https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/2a4c9c88-16aa-4a53-a5c3-89d7572e4ac0 ...

'' (V.J.Cook) Soják - Australia, New Zealand * ''

Bolboschoenus capensis ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' (Burm.f.) Holub - Cape Province of South Africa * ''

Bolboschoenus fluviatilis ''Bolboschoenus fluviatilis'', the river bulrush, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. Its range includes Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Canada, the United States, and northeastern Mexico. ''B. fluviatilis'' ...

'' (Torr.) Soják - Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Canada, United States, northeastern Mexico * ''

Bolboschoenus glaucus ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' (Lam.) S.G.Sm. - southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, Mongolia * ''

Bolboschoenus grandispicus ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' (Steud.) Lewej. & Lobin - coastal dunes in Senegal * ''

Bolboschoenus laticarpus ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' Marhold, Hroudová, Ducháček & Zákr - central Europe from Britain and France to Ukraine; Algeria, Turkey * ''

Bolboschoenus maritimus ''Bolboschoenus maritimus'' is a species of flowering plant from family Cyperaceae. Common names for this species include sea clubrush, cosmopolitan bulrush, alkali bulrush, saltmarsh bulrush, and bayonet grass. It is found in seaside wetland ha ...

'' (L.) Palla in W.D.J.Koch - widespread across much of temperate and subtropical Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and various islands * ''

Bolboschoenus medianus ''Bolboschoenus medianus'' is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia. The grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial producing red-brown flowers. It found in and along lakes and creeks along c ...

'' (V.J.Cook) Soják - Australia, New Zealand * ''

Bolboschoenus nobilis ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' (Ridl.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson - Angola, Namibia * ''

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae ''Bolboschoenus novae-angliae'', common names New England bulrush, and Salt march bulrush is a plant species found along the Atlantic seacoast of the United States from Alabama to Maine (although there are no records of the plant from South Caro ...

'' (Britton) S.G.Sm. - northeastern United States from Maine south along the seacoast to Georgia * ''

Bolboschoenus planiculmis ''Bolboschoenus planiculmis'' is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae. It sprouts from tubers or seeds from April to May and flowers between May and July, with the aboveground biomass dying back in October. It is distribu ...

'' (F.Schmidt) T.V.Egorova - much of Europe and Asia from Spain to Japan and south to New Guinea * ''

Bolboschoenus robustus ''Bolboschoenus robustus'' is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. It is known by many common names: saltmarsh bulrush, alkali bulrush, sturdy bulrush, seacoast bulrush, stout bulrush, three-cornered sedge or leafy three-cornered se ...

'' (Pursh) Soják - eastern United States; California, Bermuda, Bahamas, east coast of Mexico (from Tamaulipas to Tabasco), New Brunswick, northern South America * ''

Bolboschoenus schmidii ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the Cyperaceae, sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipalaeolithic Near East, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground Tuber, root tubers of these plants to make the History of bre ...

'' (Raymond) Holub - Iran, Central Asia * ''

Bolboschoenus stagnicola ''Bolboschoenus'' is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''Bolboschoenus cald ...

'' (Raymond) Soják. - Pakistan * ''

Bolboschoenus yagara ''Bolboschoenus yagara'' is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is a perennial clonal herb, 0.8 to 1.3 meters tall, and develops underground rhizomes that terminate in spherical or ellipsoid tubers that are up to 3-4 c ...

'' (Ohwi) Y.C.Yang & M.Zhan - northern Eurasia from Germany and Sweden to Japan and Kamchatka, including Russia, Siberia, China

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Cyperaceae genera Taxa named by Paul Friedrich August Ascherson Taxa named by Eduard Palla {{Cyperaceae-stub