Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Lilianae > Order Poales > Family Juncaceae > Genus Juncus

Juncus acutus L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Juncus*	L.	accepted genus name
*Cephaloxys*	Desv.	heterotypic synonym
*Juncastrum*	Fourr.	heterotypic synonym
*Juncinella*	Fourr.	heterotypic synonym
*Microschoenus*	C. B. Clarke	heterotypic synonym
*Phylloschoenus*	Fourr.	heterotypic synonym
*Tenageia*	(Dumort.) Fourr.	heterotypic synonym
*Tristemon*	Raf.	heterotypic synonym

Species group names

*Juncus acutus [unranked] megalocarpus*	Asch. & Graebn.	homotypic synonym; nom. inval.
*Juncus acutus var. conglobatus*	Trautv.	homotypic synonym; nom. inval.
*Juncus acutus var. conglomeratus*	Buchenau	homotypic synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Juncus acutus L. subsp. acutus
Juncus acutus subsp. leopoldii (Parl.) Snogerup

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: jonc agut; jonc marí sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

English: Sharp rush sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

English-United States: Sharp Rush sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: ihi; ihia; iña; ira; iya; sarrachi; seska; ya sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: carronceira; juncal; junqueira; Luachair bhiorach; mata de junco; xunco; xunco pinchudo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Irish: Luachair bhiorach sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

Portuguese: junça; junco agudo; junco de praia; junco-agudo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: hunco; ira; junco con borla; junco con flueque; junco espinoso; junco redondo; junco silvestre; junquilla sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Valencian: jonc; jonc agut sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Welsh: brwynen lem

Literature

nomenclatural reference	Nyman], Sp. Pl. 1753.

Genbank

Citation

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010), copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Juncus acutus L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=3D57E1AB-A00A-484F-A97C-C29CEBF1FE6D

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Importance

IUCN:
Red List status NT 2010 This species is near threatened and is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources