Bulbostylis tenella (Link) C.B.Clarke (1908:28)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Scirpus tenellus Link in Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1(3): 80 (1820); Fimbristylis tenella (Link) Schult. in Mant. 2: 59 (1824), nom. illeg. homonym. post.; Isolepis tenella (Link) Kunth in Enum. Pl. 2: 213 (1837); Oncostylis tenella (Link) Nees in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(1): 82 (1842); Stenophyllus tenellus (Link) H.Pfeiff. in Bot. Arch. 6: 191 (1924)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1820 or before (Maciel-Silva et al., 2026)
Since Rediscovered (Maciel-Silva et al., 2026)
Distribution & Habitat
northern Brazil
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Link, J. H. F. (1820). Jahrbücher der Gewächskunde, vol. 1 (3). pp. 80.
Other references:
Clarke, C. B. (1908). New genera and species of Cyperaceae. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew. Additional Series 8: 28.
Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Govaerts, R. and Simpson, D. A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kunth, K. S. (1837). Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, vol. 2. pp. 592.
Maciel-Silva, Juliene de Fátima, Larridon, Isabel, Prata, Ana Paula do Nascimento and Gil, André Dos Santos Bragança. (2026). The Long-Lost Bulbostylis tenella (Cyperaceae): Rediscovery and Taxonomic Update with Lectotypification. Phytotaxa 737(5): 276-282. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.737.5.2
Martius. (1837). Herbarium florae Brasiliensis. In: Beiblätter zur allgemeinen botanischen Zeitung 2. Leipzig.
Nees, C. G. (1842). Cyperaceae, pp. 1-226. In: Martius, C.F. (Ed.) Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum: quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas. Leipizig: München.
POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 16 February 2026]