Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cyperus elegans subsp. rubiginosus
juncia, juncia elegante
An elegant small sedge that grows in clumps. The rigid leaves are green and the flowers grow in groups shaped like small sea urchins; reddish- brown with yellow edges when fresh.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Cyperus
Species
elegans
Subspecies
subsp. rubiginosus
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Cyperus cornutus Andersson, C. rubiginosus Hook.f., C. rubiginosus var. cornutus (Andersson) B.L.Rob., Mariscus cornutus Andersson, fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Endemic
- Andersson, N.J. (1855) Om Galápagos Öarnes Vegetation. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handl., Stockholm: 61-256.
- Atkinson, R. Guézou, A. & Jaramillo, P. (2009) Siémbrame en tu jardín - Plantas nativas para jardines en Galápagos. Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador, 151 pp.
- Eliasson, U. (1965) Studies in Galápagos Plants. II. Cyperales. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 59: 469-491.
- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
- 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).
- Svenson, H.K. (1939) The Cyperaceae. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 22: 187-193.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cyperus elegans subsp. rubiginosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=886. Accessed 1 April 2026.