Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Rhynchospora radicans
tropical whitetop
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Rhynchospora
Species
radicans
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dichromena radicans Schltdl. & Cham fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010).
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Davidse, G. Sousa, S.M. & Chater, A.O. (1994) Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: i–xvi, 1–543.
- Eliasson, U. (1965) Studies in Galápagos Plants. II. Cyperales. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 59: 469-491.
- Gómez-Laurito, J. (2003) Cyperaceae. In: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica, B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 92: 458–551.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- 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.
- 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).
- Svenson, H.K. (1939) The Cyperaceae. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 22: 187-193.
- Thomas, W.W. (1984) The systematics of Rhynchospora section Dichromena. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 37: 1–116.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Rhynchospora radicans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2006. Accessed 4 November 2026.