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|accepted_name=Scleria lithosperma
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=18. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scirpus lithospermus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 51. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria lithosperma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scleria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scleria lithosperma]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 243
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes short, nodulose, aromatic when fresh. <b>Culms</b> in tufts, slender, 30–90(–115) cm, glabrous or slightly scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths purplish, wingless, weakly ribbed, finely pilose or nearly glabrous; contra-ligules reddish, triangular, rigid, distinctly ciliate; blades distinctly grayish green and revolute when dry, linear, attenuate, keeled, 1–3(–5) mm wide, shorter than culms. <b>Inflorescences</b>: axillary 1–3, terminal 1, quite lax; stalked spikes or panicles 2–4, terminal one 3–4.5(–8.5) cm with 2–7 open fascicles 2–6(–9) mm wide, of 1–4 spikelets; bracts subtending and overtopping inflorescence leaflike, broadly attenuate, scabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual (an occasional terminal staminate spikelet), few flowered, 3–5 mm; staminate scales lanceolate, pistillate scales ovate-acuminate, with prominent green keel. <b>Achenes</b> whitish or gray between angles, obscurely trigonous, ovoid or globose, 2–2.5(–3) mm, smooth, base broadly attenuate, somewhat depressed between angles, trigonous, not porose, apex umbonate; hypogynium obsolete, reduced to distinct brown band at base of achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Dry thickets, open woods, hammocks, restricted to limestone soils
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical Asia;Africa.
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|references=
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name=Scleria lithosperma
|authority=(Linnaeus) Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Scirpus lithospermus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Dry thickets, open woods, hammocks, restricted to limestone soils
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=
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|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria lithosperma
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