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|accepted_name=Scirpus pedicellatus
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=2: 16. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|common_names=Scirpe pédicellé
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus cyperinus var. pedicellatus
|authority=(Fernald) Schuyler
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scirpus;Scirpus pedicellatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scirpus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scirpus pedicellatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 10, 15, 19, 21
|treatment_page=page 20
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>aggregated in dense tussocks; rhizomes branching, short, tough, fibrous. <b>Culms</b>: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. <b>Leaves</b> ca. 8 per culm; sheaths of proximal leaves green or brownish; proximal sheaths and blades with septa few to many, consipuous or inconspicuous; blades 42–77 cm × 5–9 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; rays ascending, scabrous throughout or main branches smooth proximally, rays rarely with axillary bulblets; bases of involucral bracts green, brown, or blackish, not glutinous. <b>Spikelets</b> in open cymes, central spikelet of each cyme sessile, others usually pedicellate, spikelets ovoid, 3–9 × 2–3 mm; scales usually pale brown, black pigment absent (or sometimes a little beside distal midrib), oblong-elliptic, 1.4–1.8 mm, rounded or weakly mucronate, mucro (if present) to 0.1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles persistent, 6, slender, contorted, much longer than achene, smooth, projecting beyond scales, mature inflorescence appearing woolly; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> whitish, elliptic or obovate in outline, plumply trigonous or plano-convex, 0.7–0.9  0.4–0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer (mid or late Jul).
|habitat=Usually in lowland marshes in stream valleys, edges of bogs, boggy meadows, and wet sandy shorelines
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Scirpus pedicellatus</i> often hybridizes with <i>S. cyperinus</i> and forms hybrid swarms.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scirpus pedicellatus
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Scirpus cyperinus var. pedicellatus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer (mid or late Jul).
|habitat=Usually in lowland marshes in stream valleys, edges of bogs, boggy meadows, and wet sandy shorelines
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1900
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_19.xml
|genus=Scirpus
|species=Scirpus pedicellatus
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