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*Scleria eggersiana Boeckeler. Common name: Eggers's Nutrush. Habitat: Strand swamps. Distribution: Native of the West Indies (Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, including Puerto Rico); Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics

Synonymy ⓘ: = K4, NS, POWO; = n/a — FNA23, S, S13. Basionym: Scleria eggersiana Boeckeler 1890

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