View source for Rhynchospora alba

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora alba
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 236. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Rhynchospore blanc
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus albus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 44. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichromena alba
|authority=(Linnaeus) J. F. Macbride
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum album
|authority=(Linnaeus) House
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora luguillensis
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Triodon albus
|authority=(Linnaeus) Farwell
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora alba
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhynchospora]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhynchospora alba]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 202, 213, 230
|treatment_page=page 214
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, 6–75 cm; rhizomes mostly absent. <b>Culms</b> erect to curved, leafy, obscurely trigonous to nearly terete, few ribbed, slender. <b>Principal</b> leaves mostly overtopped by culm; blades narrowly linear to filiform, proximally flat, 0.5–1.5 mm, apex tapering, trigonous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: clusters 1 or 2–3, then widely spaced, narrowly turbinate to hemispheric, 1.5–2.5 cm wide; subtending leafy bracts often exceeded by distal cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> pale brown to nearly white, ellipsoid, 3.5–5.5 mm, apex acute; fertile scales elliptic, 3–3.5(–4) mm, apex acute or acuminate, midrib excurrent as mucro. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 10–12, slightly overtopping tubercle, retrorsely barbellate or rarely smooth, base often setose. <b>Fruits</b> 1(–2) per spikelet, (2.3–)2.5–3 mm; body pale brown with paler center, stipitateobovoid, lenticular, 1.5–1.8(–2) × 0.9–1.2 mm; surfaces transversely striate, relatively smooth, rim narrow, flowing to tubercle base; tubercle narrowly triangularsubulate, 0.5–1.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Acid, sphagnous, boggy, open sites, poor fens, often on floating mats or peaty interstices of rocky shores
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.(?);Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;West Indies (Puerto Rico);South America(?);Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>The smooth-bristled <i>Rhynchospora alba</i> forma laeviseta Gale mostly occurs with the typical antrorsely barbellate type in Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia.</p>
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name=Rhynchospora alba
|authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dichromena alba;Phaeocephalum album;Rhynchospora luguillensis;Triodon albus
|basionyms=Schoenus albus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Acid, sphagnous, boggy, open sites, poor fens, often on floating mats or peaty interstices of rocky shores
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.(?);Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;West Indies (Puerto Rico);South America(?);Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_368.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora alba
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