View source for Xyris tennesseensis

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|accepted_name=Xyris tennesseensis
|accepted_authority=Kral
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=80: 444, figs. a–e. 1978
|year=1978
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|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris tennesseensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Xyridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Xyris tennesseensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, 30–70 cm, base bulbous in maturity. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, 15–45 cm; sheaths soft, base pink or red; blade deep green, linear, flattened, somewhat twisted, 5–10 mm wide, smooth, margins somewhat scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, terete, distally somewhat compressed, 1 mm wide, 2–5-ribbed, ribs papillate; spikes ellipsoid to broadly ovoid, 10–15 mm; fertile bracts (5.5–)6–6.5(–7) mm wide, margins entire, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals included, slightly curved, (4.5–)5 mm wide, keel scarious, lacerate; petals unfolding midday, blade obovate, 4.5 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> opaque, ellipsoid, 0.5-0.6 mm, finely and irregularly ridged. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Fens and seeps over calcareous rock, streambanks in calcareous districts
|elevation=0–250 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Xyris tennesseensis</i> is unusual in habitat since because its sites are usually basic and its associates are fen or basic soil plants.</p><!--
--><p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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name=Xyris tennesseensis
|author=
|authority=Kral
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Fens and seeps over calcareous rock, streambanks in calcareous districts
|elevation=0–250 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1978
|special status=
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|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris tennesseensis
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