Rhodoscirpus

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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| image = Rhodoscirpus asper imported from iNaturalist photo 254392048 on 7 December 2023.jpg

| image_caption = R. asper in Vicuña, Chile

| genus = Rhodoscirpus

| parent_authority = Léveillé-Bourret, Donadío & J.R.Starr

| species = asper

| authority = (J.Presl & C.Presl) Lév.-Bourret, Donadío & J.R.Starr

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Rhodoscirpus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae. The only species is Rhodoscirpus asper.{{cite web |title=Rhodoscirpus Léveillé-Bourret, Donadío & J.R.Starr {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77152343-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}} It was reclassified from the previous Scirpus asper.{{Cite journal|last=Léveillé-Bourret|first=Étienne|last2=Donadío|first2=Sabina|last3=Gilmour|first3=Claire N.|last4=Starr|first4=Julian R.|date=2015-10-28|title=Rhodoscirpus (Cyperaceae: Scirpeae), a new South American sedge genus supported by molecular, morphological, anatomical and embryological data|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.12705/645.4|journal=Taxon|language=en|volume=64|issue=5|pages=931–944|doi=10.12705/645.4|hdl=11336/19049|hdl-access=free}} It is a South American species native to Peru, Bolivia, north and central Chile and Argentina.