View source for Rhynchospora floridensis

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora floridensis
|accepted_authority=(Britton) H. Pfeiffer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|place=49: 82. 1940
|year=1940
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Dichromena floridensis
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. K. Small, Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication_place=190. 1903
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora floridensis
|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 floridensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 215
|treatment_page=page 216
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 20–50 cm, wiry; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect to spreading, leafybased; scapes nearly filiform, nearly trigonous, few ribbed. <b>Leaves</b> spreading to erect, exceeded by scape; blades filiform to linear, proximally flat or involute, becoming involute, 0.4–2 mm wide, apex tapering, trigonous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, solitary, headlike, dense, white, leafyinvolucrate, 0.5–1 cm wide; involucral bracts 3–6, spreading to recurved, whitebased, greentipped, narrowly linear, longest bract elongatesubulate, 4–8 cm × 2–5 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> white, ovoid, 4–6 mm; scales several, boatshaped, basal ones with ciliolate keel, fertile ones 3–3.8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> 1–1.2 mm; body yellow to black, nearly orbicular, tumidly lenticular, 0.8–1 × 0.6–0.7(–1) mm; surface lattices shortlinear, vertical in fine undulating rows, with ends raised to rounded, transverse rugulosities; tubercle lowtriangular, lunate, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute, blunt or apiculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall, or all year.
|habitat=Moist open areas over reef limestones, rocky pine savanna
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico (Chiapas;Yucatán);West Indies (Bahamas);Central America (Belize).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora floridensis</i> is much like <i>R. colorata</i>, with which it is often associated; it can be easily distinguished by its strictly cespitose habit and its ciliolate spikelet scale keels.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora floridensis
|authority=(Britton) H. Pfeiffer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Dichromena floridensis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall, or all year.
|habitat=Moist open areas over reef limestones, rocky pine savanna
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico (Chiapas;Yucatán);West Indies (Bahamas);Central America (Belize).
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication year=1940
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_373.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora floridensis
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