Bulbostylis

{{Short description|Genus of grass-like plants}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

|name = Hairsedges

|image = Bulbostylis neglecta scale.jpg

|image_caption = Bulbostylis neglecta

|taxon = Bulbostylis

|authority = Kunth

|type_species= Bulbostylis capillaris

|type_species_authority = (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke.

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 100+; See text

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=222265 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms = *Stenophyllus Raf.

• Oncostylis Nees

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Bulbostylis is a genus of plants in the sedge family. They are sometimes called hairsedges. There are over 200 species of these clump-forming plants of dry grasslands and warm and tropical savannas worldwide. They have solid, rounded, grooved stems and long, thin basal leaves. They bear spikelets of flowers.

Selected species:

• Bulbostylis barbata - watergrass
• Bulbostylis bathiei
• Bulbostylis boecklerianaBussmann, R. W., et al. (2006). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475560/ Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya.] J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2 22.
• Bulbostylis burbidgeae
• Bulbostylis cangae
• Bulbostylis capillaris - densetuft hairsedge
• Bulbostylis ciliatifolia - capillary hairsedge
• Bulbostylis cioniana (Savi) Lye
• Bulbostylis coleotricha
• Bulbostylis curassavica - West Indian hairsedge
• Bulbostylis eleocharoides
• Bulbostylis fasciculata
• Bulbostylis fluviatilis
• Bulbostylis funckii - Funck's hairsedge
• Bulbostylis haitiensis
• Bulbostylis hispidula
• Bulbostylis junciformis - Caribbean hairsedge
• Bulbostylis juncoides - rush hairsedge
• Bulbostylis lichtensteiniana - tussock sedge
• Bulbostylis neglecta - neglected tuftsedge
• Bulbostylis pauciflora - fewflower hairsedge
• Bulbostylis schaffneri - Schaffner's hairsedge
• Bulbostylis stenophylla - sandy field hairsedge
• Bulbostylis turbinata
• Bulbostylis vestita - tufted hairsedge
• Bulbostylis warei - Ware's hairsedge