Rhynchospora globularis

(Chapman) Small

Man. S.E. Fl., 184. 1933.

Illustrated
Basionym: Rhynchospora cymosa var. globularis Chapman Fl. South. U.S., 525. 1860
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 227. Mentioned on page 205, 225, 226.

Plants perennial, cespitose or single, 30–70(–80) cm; rhizomes absent. Culms erect or excurved, lax, leafy, slender to wiry. Leaves overtopped by culm; basal leaves spreading, twisted, distal longer, erect or ascending; blades proximally flat, 1–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, subulate, tapering. Inflorescences: spikelet clusters 1–4, proximalmost widely spaced, spikelets elongate, open, turbinate or compactlobed hemispheric; branches erect to ascending; leafy bracts setaceous, exceeding proximal clusters, exceeded by distal clusters. Spikelets mostly dark brown to brown, globose to broadly ovoid, (2–)2.5–3(–4) mm, apex acute; fertile scales broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1.7–2.3 mm, apex obtuse to rounded or emarginate, midrib mostly included, sometimes excurrent as apiculus. Flowers: perianth bristles 6 or less, antrorsely barbellate, of various lengths. Fruits 1–3 per spikelet, 1.5–1–8 mm (–2 mm in var. pinetorum); body tumidly biconvex; surfaces transversely wavyrugose, intervals of vertically rectangular alveolae or transverserugosity indistinct, surface isodiametrically alveolate or cancellate; tubercle shortconic to patelliformapiculate.

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Calif., Fla., Ga., Ind., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.C., N.J., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., West Indies, Central America.

Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Spikelets ovoid; fruit body scarcely transversely wavy rugose, instead with transverse, undulate rows of subisodiametric to very broadly rectangular lattices or alveolae. Rhynchospora globularis var. pinetorum
1 Spikelets broadly ovoid to subglobose; fruit body distinctly transversely wavy-rugose, intervals composed of irregular rows of vertical, rectangular alveolae. > 2
2 Perianth bristles not extending much beyond fruit midbody; tubercle low conic, distinctly narrower than rounded summit of fruit body. Rhynchospora globularis var. globularis
2 Perianth bristles extending at least to fruit tubercle, sometimes to tip; tubercle depressed conic or patelliform, apiculate, nearly as broad as more truncate summit of fruit body. Rhynchospora globularis var. saxicola
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Ala. +, Ark. +, Calif. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.C. +, N.J. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +, West Indies +  and Central America. +
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