Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Monocotyledon	Literature for Rhynchospora rugosa subsp. lavarum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Cyperaceae -- The Sedge Family	Bibliography
**Rhynchospora rugosa subsp. lavarum**
Common name(s): beak-rush, kuolohia, pu`uko`a

General Information
Distribution	In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.	Click here for detailed USGS map by Jonathan Price




Flowers	Inflorescences scanty and much longer hypogynous bristles that surpass the style base.
Fruit	Achenes nearly smooth.