View source for Rhynchospora rariflora

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora rariflora
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=1: 58. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus rariflorus
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 35. 1803
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum rariflorum
|authority=(Michaux) House
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora rariflora
|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 rariflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 201, 204, 220, 222
|treatment_page=page 221
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, 15–60 cm; rhizomes compact, branching, slender. <b>Culms</b> lax,filiform, leafy, terete, grooved. leaves ascending to erect, exceeded by culm, blades lax, filiform, margins proximally deeply involute, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b> mostly cymose clusters, simple or compound, 1–3(–4), widely spaced, loose, narrowly to broadly turbinate;, branchies capillary, ascending to spreading, leafy bracts setaceous, exceeded by or exceeding cymes. <b>Spikelets</b> light redbrown or brown, lanceovoid to fusiform, 3–4(–4.5) mm, apex acuminate, fertile scales ovate, mostly 2–3 mm, apex rounded to acute, midrib included or shortexcurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles mostly 6, unequal, rarely extending past fruit midbody, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1–4 per spikelet, 1.8–2 mm, body yellowbrown to brown, lustrous, tumidly obovoidlenticular, 1–1.5 × 1–1.5 mm, surfaces transversely wavyrugose, intervals vertically striate with narrow alveolae, tubercle flat, triangular, 0.3–0.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer or all year (south).
|habitat=Sands or peats of low savannas, seeps, bogs, flatwoods, pond shores, stream banks
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora rariflora</i> forms solid tussocks by means of short, forking, compact masses of rhizomes.</p>
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name=Rhynchospora rariflora
|authority=(Michaux) Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum rariflorum
|basionyms=Schoenus rariflorus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer or all year (south).
|habitat=Sands or peats of low savannas, seeps, bogs, flatwoods, pond shores, stream banks
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1816
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_386.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora rariflora
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