View source for Rhynchospora miliacea

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora miliacea
|accepted_authority=(Lamarck) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=3: 198. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus miliaceus
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck and J. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl.
|publication_place=1: 137. 1791
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum miliaceum
|authority=(Lamarck) House
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora sparsa
|authority=(Michaux) Vahl
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Schoenus sparsus
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora miliacea
|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 miliacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 205, 224
|treatment_page=page 226
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, to 150 cm; rhizomes stoloniferous, slender. <b>Culms</b> lax, leafy, wandlike, ± terete to obscurely angled, slender. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, exceeded by culms; blades flat, 4–7(–10) mm wide, apex trigonous, shortacuminate, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 4–6 or more, equidistant along culm on ascending peduncles, branches capillary, divaricate, clusters loose, diffuse, rounded. <b>Spikelets</b> light brown, ellipsoid to lanceoloid or ovoid, 2.5–3.5 mm, apex acute; fertile scales ovate, (1.5–)2–3 mm, apex rounded or acute, midrib forming apiculus. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, longest exceeding tubercle, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 2–several per spikelet, 1.3–1.5 mm; body pale brown, broadly obovoid, tumidly biconvex, 1.1–1.2 × 1–1.1 mm; surfaces transversely sharply wavyrugulose, intervals with vertical, rectangular, shallow alveolae; tubercle depressedconic, slightly compressed, 0.2–0.3(–0.4) mm, edges setulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy alluvium of swamp forests and gallery forests, low clearings forests
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p>The ultimate branches in <i>Rhynchospora miliacea</i> typically terminate in only one or two spikelets, the scales of which fall quickly, and the exposed fruits look like short miniature strings of beads.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora miliacea
|authority=(Lamarck) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum miliaceum;Rhynchospora sparsa;Schoenus sparsus
|basionyms=Schoenus miliaceus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy alluvium of swamp forests and gallery forests, low clearings forests
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1835
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_397.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora miliacea
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