Rhynchospora nitens

(Vahl) A. Gray

Manual ed. 5, 568. 1867.

Illustrated
Basionym: Scirpus nitens Vahl Enum. Pl. 2: 272. 1805
Synonyms: Isolepis nitens (Vahl) Roemer & Schultes Psilocarya nitens (Vahl) Alph. Wood Psilocarya rhynchosporoides Torrey
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 217. Mentioned on page 202.
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Plants annual, cespitose or solitary, (10–)20–100 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms erect, leafy, nearly terete or angled, manyribbed. Principal midculm leaves often exceeding inflorescences; blades linear, proximally flattened, 1–5 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, clusters of corymbs 1–5, usually diffuse; leafy bracts exceeding proximal corymbs. Spikelets dark brown, lanceoloid to ovoid, mostly 4–6(–8) mm, apex acute; fertile scales many, ovate, rounded-convex, 2–3.5 mm, apex acute, midrib mostly included, rarely forming apiculus. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 1–1.3(–1.5) mm, body dark brown, tumidly lenticular, nearly orbicular, 0.7–1 × 0.7–1 mm, margins strong, interrupted at tubercle base; surfaces irregularly transversely rugulose with wavy rows of vertical, linear, raised cells; tubercle depressed-triangular, 0.1–0.3 mm, capping fruit summit, base broadly 2lobed.


Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall or all year.
Habitat: Moist to wet sands or peats of stream banks, pond shores, depressions in savannas, marshes
Elevation: 0–100 m

Distribution

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Ala., Del., Fla., Ga., Ind., La., Mass., Mich., Miss., N.J., N.Y., N.C., S.C., Tex., Va., West Indies, Central America.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Robert Kral +
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Scirpus nitens +
Ala. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, La. +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Miss. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Tex. +, Va. +, West Indies +  and Central America. +
0–100 m +
Moist to wet sands or peats of stream banks, pond shores, depressions in savannas, marshes +
Fruiting summer–fall or all year. +
Illustrated +
Isolepis nitens +, Psilocarya nitens +  and Psilocarya rhynchosporoides +
Rhynchospora nitens +
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