Bolboschoenus

Bolboschoenus is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads.

• Bolboschoenus caldwellii <small>(V.J.Cook) Soják</small> – Australia, New Zealand
• Bolboschoenus capensis <small>(Burm.f.) Holub</small> – Cape Province of South Africa
• Bolboschoenus fluviatilis <small>(Torr.) Soják</small> – Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Canada, United States, northeastern Mexico
• Bolboschoenus glaucus <small>(Lam.) S.G.Sm.</small> – southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, Mongolia
• Bolboschoenus grandispicus <small>(Steud.) Lewej. & Lobin</small> – coastal dunes in Senegal
• Bolboschoenus laticarpus <small>Marhold, Hroudová, Ducháček & Zákr</small> – central Europe from Britain and France to Ukraine; Algeria, Turkey
• Bolboschoenus maritimus <small>(L.) Palla in W.D.J.Koch</small> – widespread across much of temperate and subtropical Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and various islands
• Bolboschoenus medianus <small>(V.J.Cook) Soják</small> – Australia, New Zealand
• Bolboschoenus nobilis <small>(Ridl.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson</small> – Angola, Namibia
• Bolboschoenus novae-angliae <small>(Britton) S.G.Sm.</small> – northeastern United States from Maine south along the seacoast to Georgia
• Bolboschoenus planiculmis <small>(F.Schmidt) T.V.Egorova</small> – much of Europe and Asia from Spain to Japan and south to New Guinea
• Bolboschoenus robustus <small>(Pursh) Soják</small> – eastern United States; California, Bermuda, Bahamas, east coast of Mexico (from Tamaulipas to Tabasco), New Brunswick, northern South America
• Bolboschoenus schmidii <small>(Raymond) Holub</small> – Iran, Central Asia
• Bolboschoenus stagnicola <small>(Raymond) Soják.</small> – Pakistan
• Bolboschoenus yagara <small>(Ohwi) Y.C.Yang & M.Zhan</small> – northern Eurasia from Germany and Sweden to Japan and Kamchatka, including Russia, Siberia, China

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