Juncus dichotomus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Juncaceae
Genus: Juncus
Species: Juncus dichotomus

Name

Juncus dichotomus Elliott, 1817

Synonyms

Juncus albicans Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 45: 415 (1910)
Juncus cognatus Kunth, Enum. Pl. 3: 349 (1841)
Juncus dichotomus var. platyphyllus Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30: 448 (1903)
Juncus platyphyllus (Wiegand) Fernald, Rhodora 47: 124 (1945)
Juncus tenuis ssp. dichotomus (Elliott) Verloove & Lambinon, New J. Bot. 1(1): 40 (2011)
Juncus tenuis var. dichotomus (Elliott) Alph.Wood, Class-book Bot.: 726 (1861)
Juncus tenuis var. platyphyllus (Wiegand) Cory, Rhodora 38: 405 (1936)
Juncus tenuis var. unicornis E.Mey., Linnaea 3: 371 (1828)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- 'Regional:USA
  - USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
- 'Regional: Mexico
  - Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Zacatecas)
Continental: Southern America
- 'Regional: Central America
  - Guatemala; Honduras; El Salvador; Costa Rica
- 'Regional: Caribbean
  - Jamaica; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico
- 'Regional: Northern South America
  - Venezuela (Merida); Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija)
- 'Regional: Brazil
  - Brazil (Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo); S-Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina)
- 'Regional: Southern South America
  - Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Jujuy, La Pampa, Neuquen, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, San Luis, Tucuman); Paraguay (Guaira); Uruguay (Florida, Maldonado, Montevideo, Rio Negro, Rocha, San Jose, Soriano, Tacuarembo, Treinta y Tres)
- 'Regional: Western South America
  - Chile (Maule, Bio Bio, Araucania)
- Introduced into:
  - ^Austria, Belgium, Italy, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Elliott, S. 1816–1821. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia Volume I. 606 pp., 6 pl. Charleston, SC: J.R. Schenck. BHL Reference page. : 1: 406 (1817).

Additional references

Kirschner, J. & al. (2002). Juncaceae Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 6-8: 1-237, 1-336,1-192. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Juncus dichotomus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar 05. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Juncus dichotomus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar 05. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Juncus dichotomus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 05 Mar 2022.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Juncus dichotomus. Published online. Accessed: Mar 05 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Forked rush

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