Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pycreus fugax
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Pycreus
Species
fugax
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cyperus fugax Liebm. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010) et Jørgensen (1999).
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Eliasson, U. (1965) Studies in Galápagos Plants. II. Cyperales. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 59: 469-491.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pycreus fugax", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16048. Accessed 6 November 2026.