''Leptocarpus denmarkicus'' is a species of plant in the

Restionaceae The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former famil ...

(rush) family, endemic to

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. It was first described in 1943 by

Karl Suessenguth Karl Suessenguth (22 June 1893, Münnerstadt – 7 April 1955, Ischia) was a German botanist. He studied under Karl Ritter von Goebel at the University of Munich, where in 1927 he became a professor of botany. From 1927 to 1955 he was curator of t ...

as ''Meeboldina denmarkica''. However, in 2014, the genus '' Leptocarpus'' was expanded by

Barbara Briggs Barbara Gillian Briggs (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The '' IK'' lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of th1998 APG ...

to include '' Meeboldina'' and the species name became ''Leptocarpus denmarkicus''.

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External links

''Leptocarpus denmarkicus'': images & occurrence data
from the

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