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Schoenoplectus lacustris

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
Links to other databases
Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Details Top

Internal ID UUID6440088568385023545915
Scientific name Schoenoplectus lacustris
Authority (L.) Palla
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 299 (1888)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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General Uses Top

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Common products:
- Food products: young shoots are eaten as a vegetable; roots contain starch and are roasted (Prota4U).

Wood and fiber:
- The stems yield a long, pliable bast fiber used for weaving mats, baskets, and chair seats (Prota4U; Cab abstract on “Bulrush (Schoenoplectus lacustris): industrial utilization as a fiber and thatch source”). In some regions, bundles of whole stems are used for thatching and packing, similar to other bulrushes (European ethnobotany literature).

Colorants and tanning:
- No documented use as a dye or tanning agent for S. lacustris.

Industrial and craft applications:
- Fiber is suitable for cordage and coarse woven goods; stems are assembled as thatch bundles in traditional construction (Prota4U; European building traditions).

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
- Young shoots may be boiled or roasted and consumed as a vegetable; roots are roasted and eaten for their starch (Prota4U). Consumption is regional and seasonally dependent.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
- No documented use.

Properties relevant to use:
- Stems are flexible and durable when dry, facilitating weaving and thatching; rhizomes store carbohydrates, enabling roasting of roots (Prota4U).

Standards and regulation:
- No specific standards noted for this taxon.

Sustainability and sourcing:
- The species occurs in wetlands and is harvested from wild or semi-wild stands; management to prevent habitat disturbance is advisable (Prota4U).

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Cyperus americanus Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd. : t. 13c (1764)
Cyperus lacustris Missbach & E.H.L.Krause Deutschl. Fl. Abbild. , ed. 2, 2: 30 (1900)
Eleogiton lacustris Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon , n.s., 17: 173 (1869)
Heleophylax lacustris Schinz & Thell. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 53: 587 (1908)
Hymenochaeta lacustris (L.) Nakai Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 31: 133 (1952)
Schoenus lacustris Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf. : 26 (1800)
Scirpus altissimus Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 2: 514 (1792)
Scirpus andrzejowscii Besser ex Schult. Mant. 3: 536. 1827 [Jul-Dec 1827]
Scirpus custoris Hegetschw. Fl. Schw. 49.
Scirpus holoschoenus Oeder Fl. Dan. : t. 454 (1769)
Scirpus janii Besser ex Schult. Mant. 3: 536. 1827 [Jul-Dec 1827]
Scirpus lacustris L. Sp. Pl. : 48 (1753)
Scirpus lacustris var. carinatus Nakai Unknown Publ.
Scirpus lacustris f. compactus Beckh. Fl. Westfalen 936 1893
Scirpus lacustris f. confertus Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 692 1866
Scirpus lacustris f. conglomeratus Junge Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. 25(Beih. 3): 255 1908
Scirpus lacustris f. foliosus Des Moul. Cat. Rais. Phan. Dordogne, Suppl. Fin. 306 1859
Scirpus lacustris f. laxiflorus Kuntze Taschen-Fl. Leipzig 25 1867
Scirpus lacustris f. minor Baumg. Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 3: 320 1815
Scirpus lacustris f. palustris Schltdl. Fl. Berol. 1: 1823
Scirpus lacustris f. radiatus Vollm. Fl. Bayern 125 1914
Scirpus lacustris f. terrestris Glück Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 39B: 313 1922
Scirpus lithuanicus Besser ex Schult. Mant. 3: 535. 1827 [Jul-Dec 1827]
Scirpus macrophyllus Besser ex Schult. Mant. 3: 535, in obs. 1827 [Jul-Dec 1827]
Scirpus pungens Willd. ex Kunth Enum. Pl. 2: 164 (1837)
Scirpus trigonus Nolte Novit. Fl. Holsat. : 9 (1826)
Scirpus wolfgangii Besser ex Schult. Mant. 3: 536. 1827 [Jul-Dec 1827]
Scirpus lacustris var. medius Schrad. ex Lej. Rev. Fl. Spa 11 1824
Scirpus lacustris var. custoris (Hegetschw) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur. 764 1882
Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. flevensis (D.Bakker) Á.Löve & D.Löve Bot. Not. 114: 50. 1961 (1961)
Scirpus lacustris subsp. flevensis D.Bakker Acta Bot. Neerl. 3(4): 434. 1954
Scirpus lacustris var. digynus Godr. Fl. Lorraine 3: 90. 1844
Scirpus lacustris subsp. thracicus Velen. Sitzungsber. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. 37: 68. 1893 (1892 publ. 1893)
Scirpus lacustris var. genuinus Godr. Fl. Lorraine 3: 90 (1844)
Scirpus lacustris var. major Schrad. Fl. Germ. : 134 (1806)

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English lakeshore bulrush
English great club-rush
English common club-rush
English scirpus lacustris
Spanish junco lacustre
Spanish junco de laguna
Spanish scirpus lacustris
Amharic ሙሽ
Arabic جولان بحيري
Belarusian scirpus lacustris
Belarusian Чарот азёрны
Czech skřípinec jezerní
Welsh llafrwynen
Danish sø-kogleaks
Danish scirpus lacustris
Danish søkogleaks
Danish scirpus lacustris 'albescens'
German scirpus lacustris
German gewöhnliche teichbinse
German gewöhnliche teichsimse
Estonian järvekaisel
Estonian järvkaisel
Estonian scirpus lacustris
Estonian järvekõrkjas
Finnish järvikaisla
French scirpus lacustris
French jonc des chaisiers
French scirpe aigu
French scirpe des lacs, jonc des chaisiers commun
Galician buño
grc club-rush
grc ὁλόσχοινος
Hebrew אגמון האגם
Hebrew scirpus lacustris
Upper Sorbian hatna syć
Upper Sorbian koniki
Hungarian tavi káka
Italian scirpus lacustris
Italian lisca lacustre
Japanese オオフトイ
Lithuanian ežerinis meldas
Latvian ezera meldrs
Norwegian Bokmål sjøsivaks
Dutch mattenbies
Polish sitowie
Polish oczeret jeziorny
Portuguese scirpus lacustris
Portuguese bunho
Russian scirpus lacustris
Russian схеноплектус озёрный
Russian камыш озёрный
Swedish säv
Chinese 沼生水葱
Chinese 沼生水蔥

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Name Authority First published in
Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. hippolyti (V.I.Krecz.) Kukkonen Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 98B(Suppl.): 89 (1996)
Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. lacustris Unknown

Varieties (abbr. var.) Top

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Subvarieties (abbr. subvar.) Top

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Germination/Propagation Top

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Africa
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Free State
      • Lesotho
      • Northern Provinces
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Mauritania
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Yemen
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • Xinjiang
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Kirgizstan
      • Tadzhikistan
      • Turkmenistan
      • Uzbekistan
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Khabarovsk
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
    • Western Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Iran
      • Palestine
      • Turkey
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Bangladesh
      • India
      • Pakistan
      • West Himalaya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Krym
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Kriti
      • Romania
      • Sicilia
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000527292
USDA Plants SCLA14
Tropicos 9900398
INPN 121549
Flora of Italy 8027
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1019162-1
The Plant List kew-262997
Plantarium 34356
PFAF Schoenoplectus lacustris
Open Tree Of Life 91655
NCBI Taxonomy 76502
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002386
Nature Serve 2.160301
IUCN Red List 164207
IPNI 1019162-1
iNaturalist 168628
GBIF 2710941
Freebase /m/06k5m_
EPPO SCPLA
EOL 249640
Elurikkus 7157
USDA GRIN 410200
Wikipedia Schoenoplectus_lacustris

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_964200675.1 lpSchLacu1.1 Chromosome WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE 2024-07-24 31 458.59 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Long term impacts of endozoochory and salinity on germination of wetland plants after entering simulated seed banks Espinar JL, Figuerola J, Green AJ Front Plant Sci 31-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10644059
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1275622
PMID:38023866
Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478–1549 Crous PW, Osieck ER, Shivas RG, Tan YP, Bishop-Hurley SL, Esteve-Raventós F, Larsson E, Luangsa-ard JJ, Pancorbo F, Balashov S, Baseia IG, Boekhout T, Chandranayaka S, Cowan DA, Cruz RH, Czachura P, De la Peña-Lastra S, Dovana F, Drury B, Fell J, Flakus A, Fotedar R, Jurjević Ž, Kolecka A, Mack J, Maggs-Kölling G, Mahadevakumar S, Mateos A, Mongkolsamrit S, Noisripoom W, Plaza M, Overy DP, Piątek M, Sandoval-Denis M, Vauras J, Wingfield MJ, Abell SE, Ahmadpour A, Akulov A, Alavi F, Alavi Z, Altés A, Alvarado P, Anand G, Ashtekar N, Assyov B, Banc-Prandi G, Barbosa KD, Barreto GG, Bellanger JM, Bezerra JL, Bhat DJ, Bilański P, Bose T, Bozok F, Chaves J, Costa-Rezende DH, Danteswari C, Darmostuk V, Delgado G, Denman S, Eichmeier A, Etayo J, Eyssartier G, Faulwetter S, Ganga KG, Ghosta Y, Goh J, Góis JS, Gramaje D, Granit L, Groenewald M, Gulden G, Gusmão LF, Hammerbacher A, Heidarian Z, Hywel-Jones N, Jankowiak R, Kaliyaperumal M, Kaygusuz O, Kezo K, Khonsanit A, Kumar S, Kuo CH, Læssøe T, Latha KP, Loizides M, Luo SM, Maciá-Vicente JG, Manimohan P, Marbach PA, Marinho P, Marney TS, Marques G, Martín MP, Miller AN, Mondello F, Moreno G, Mufeeda KT, Mun HY, Nau T, Nkomo T, Okrasińska A, Oliveira JP, Oliveira RL, Ortiz DA, Pawłowska J, Pérez-De-Gregorio MÀ, Podile AR, Portugal A, Privitera N, Rajeshkumar KC, Rauf I, Rian B, Rigueiro-Rodríguez A, Rivas-Torres GF, Rodriguez-Flakus P, Romero-Gordillo M, Saar I, Saba M, Santos CD, Sarma PV, Siquier JL, Sleiman S, Spetik M, Sridhar KR, Stryjak-Bogacka M, Szczepańska K, Taşkın H, Tennakoon DS, Thanakitpipattana D, Trovão J, Türkekul İ, van Iperen AL, van ’t Hof P, Vasquez G, Visagie CM, Wingfield BD, Wong PT, Yang WX, Yarar M, Yarden O, Yilmaz N, Zhang N, Zhu YN, Groenewald JZ Persoonia 29-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10983837
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2023.50.05
PMID:38567263
High-Resolution Lacustrine Records of the Late Holocene Hydroclimate of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russian Far East Razjigaeva N, Ganzey L, Grebennikova T, Kopoteva T, Klimin M, Arslanov K, Lyashchevskaya M, Panichev A, Lupakov S Biology (Basel) 26-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10376648
doi:10.3390/biology12070913
PMID:37508345
Wild Edible Plants of Andalusia: Traditional Uses and Potential of Eating Wild in a Highly Diverse Region Benítez G, Molero-Mesa J, González-Tejero MR Plants (Basel) 07-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10051205
doi:10.3390/plants12061218
PMID:36986907
The Unexpected Identity of Tympanis vagabunda Quijada L, Baral HO, Pfister DH Life (Basel) 28-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10058965
doi:10.3390/life13030661
PMID:36983817
Chlorophytes response to habitat complexity and human disturbance in the catchment of small and shallow aquatic systems Celewicz S, Kozak A, Kuczyńska-Kippen N Sci Rep 29-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9338304
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-17093-3
PMID:35906373
Environmental ranges discriminating between macrophytes groups in European rivers Kaijser W, Birk S, Hering D PLoS One 14-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9197031
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269744
PMID:35700165
Environmental Gradients Shaping the Freshwater Bryophyte Communities of Croatia (Western Balkans) Rimac A, Alegro A, Šegota V, Vuković N, Koletić N Plants (Basel) 09-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9230072
doi:10.3390/plants11121542
PMID:35736693
The Macrophyte Indices for Rivers to Assess the Ecological Conditions in the Klina River in the Republic of Kosovo Bytyçi P, Shala-Abazi A, Zhushi-Etemi F, Bonifazi G, Hyseni-Spahiu M, Fetoshi O, Çadraku H, Feka F, Millaku F Plants (Basel) 30-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9183134
doi:10.3390/plants11111469
PMID:35684241
Local traditional ecological knowledge about hay management practices in wetlands of the Biebrza Valley, Poland Sucholas J, Molnár Z, Łuczaj Ł, Poschlod P J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 22-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8862566
doi:10.1186/s13002-022-00509-9
PMID:35193618
Making a Virtue of Necessity: The Use of Wild Edible Plant Species (Also Toxic) in Bread Making in Times of Famine According to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti (1766) Paura B, Di Marzio P Biology (Basel) 11-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8869735
doi:10.3390/biology11020285
PMID:35205151
Long-Term Changes in Macrophyte Distribution and Abundance in a Lowland River Peternel A, Gaberščik A, Zelnik I, Holcar M, Germ M Plants (Basel) 31-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8840756
doi:10.3390/plants11030401
PMID:35161382
Anthropogenic Stressors in Upland Rivers: Aquatic Macrophyte Responses. A Case Study from Bulgaria Gecheva G, Pall K, Todorov M, Traykov I, Gribacheva N, Stankova S, Birk S Plants (Basel) 09-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8703415
doi:10.3390/plants10122708
PMID:34961179
Variation in male‐built nest volume with nesting‐support quality, colony, and egg production in whiskered terns Paillisson J, Chambon R Ecol Evol 04-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8601887
doi:10.1002/ece3.8162
PMID:34824776
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia) Molnár Z, Szabados K, Kiš A, Marinkov J, Demeter L, Biró M, Öllerer K, Katona K, Đapić M, Perić R, Ulicsni V, Babai D J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 09-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8501720
doi:10.1186/s13002-021-00482-9
PMID:34627295

Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Stilbenes
1,5-dimethoxy-3-[(E)-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)benzene 101665863 Click to see CC(=CCC1=C(C=C(C=C1OC)OC)C=CC2=CC=C(C=C2)OC)C 338.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663
3-[(E)-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethenyl]-5-methoxy-2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)phenol 101665864 Click to see CC(=CCC1=C(C=C(C=C1O)OC)C=CC2=CC=C(C=C2)O)C 310.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663
3-[2-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)ethenyl]-5-methoxy-2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)phenol 162943390 Click to see 310.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663
3,5,4'-Trimethoxystilbene 364707 Click to see 270.32 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663
5-methoxy-3-[(E)-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)phenol 24150638 Click to see 324.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663
5-Methoxy-3-[2-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)phenol 74209461 Click to see 324.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.3390/60800663

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