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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora fusca
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|place=1: 127. 1810
|year=1810
}}
|common_names=Rhynchospore brun
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus fuscus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl. ed.
|publication_place=2, 2: 1664. 1763
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum fuscum
|authority=(Linnaeus) House
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora alba var. fusca
|authority=(Linnaeus) Vahl
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora fusca
|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 fusca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 206, 233
|treatment_page=page 232
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 10–50 cm; rhizomes stoloniferous, slender. <b>Culms</b> erect to excurved, filiform, leafy, ± terete. <b>Leaves</b> shorter than culm; blades ascending, filiform, proximally to 1.5(–2)mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering, setaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: lateral spikelet clusters (0–)1–2, distant, terminal cluster ellipsoid to broadly turbinate or hemispheric, branches ascending; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> red-brown to deep brown, lanceoloid, (4–)5–6(–7) mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, 4–5(–6) mm, apex acuminate, midrib often excurrent as awn. <b>Flowers</b>: bristles 5–6, longest reaching at least past tubercle base, mostly to tip or beyond, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 2(–3) per spikelet, (2.3–)2.5–2.6(–3) mm with pedicellar joint, receptacle, and tubercle; body lustrous, pale brown to deep brown, obovoid to ellipsoid, lenticular, 1–1.5 × 1 mm, margins narrow, flowing to tubercle; surfaces longitudinally finely lined, transversely very finely ridged with wavy rows of very narrow, vertical lattices, sometimes also with lines of shallow pits; tubercle triangularsubulate, (0.7–)1–1.3(–1.5) mm, base lunate, margins setulose proximally.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond shores, bogs, and seeps
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
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name=Rhynchospora fusca
|authority=(Linnaeus) W. T. Aiton in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum fuscum;Rhynchospora alba var. fusca
|basionyms=Schoenus fuscus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond shores, bogs, and seeps
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1810
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora fusca
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