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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora eximia
|accepted_authority=(Nees) Boeckeler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=37: 601. 1873
|year=1873
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Spermodon eximius
|authority=Nees
|rank=species
|publication_title=in B. Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald,
|publication_place=222. 1854
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Psilocarya schiedeana
|authority=(Nees) Liebmann
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora oxycephala
|authority=C. Wright
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora psilocaroides
|authority=Grisebach
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora eximia
|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 eximia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 202, 215, 217
|treatment_page=page 216
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial or annual, single or cespitose, (10–)20–50 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> spreading to erect, leafy, obtusely triangular. <b>Leaves</b> often exceeding inflorescences; blades narrowly linear, proximally flat, 1–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, clusters of 1–5 corymbs; leafy bracts much exceeding corymbs. <b>Spikelets</b> few to several, on ascending, stiff, short-to-elongate branches, red-brown to brown, lanceoloid, (5–)6–10 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales many, ovate, shallowly convex, 5 mm, apex acuminate; midrib short-excurrent or not. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> 1.5 mm; body dark brown to black, tumidly lenticular, nearly orbicular, 0.8–0.9 × 0.6–0.7 mm, margins grooved, discontinuous with tubercle; surfaces transversely wavyrugose, ridges of contiguous rows of vertical, linear, raised cells; tubercle broad, low triangular, 0.2–0.3 mm, crustaceous, base capping fruit summit, raised at ends, apex shortacuminate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Moist to wet sandy peaty swales, pond shores, depressions in savannas, moist waste areas
|elevation=0–100[–1000] m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora eximia</i> is often found at elevations from near sea level to over 1000 m in the tropics.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Rhynchospora eximia
|authority=(Nees) Boeckeler
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Psilocarya schiedeana;Rhynchospora oxycephala;Rhynchospora psilocaroides
|basionyms=Spermodon eximius
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting all year.
|habitat=Moist to wet sandy peaty swales, pond shores, depressions in savannas, moist waste areas
|elevation=0–100[–1000] m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1873
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_374.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora eximia
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