View source for Fimbristylis castanea

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|accepted_name=Fimbristylis castanea
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 294. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus castaneus
|authority=Michaux
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis cylindrica
|authority=Vahl
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fimbristylis spadicea var. castanea
|authority=(Michaux) A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fimbristylis;Fimbristylis castanea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fimbristylis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fimbristylis castanea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 129
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, 80–150(–200) cm, bases deep set, stout; rhizomes absent. <b>Leaves</b> erect or ascending, 1/2–2/3 plant height, bases of leaves hard, leathery, usually dark brown or castaneous; sheaths distally bristly-ciliate, backs chestnut brown, glabrous; ligule absent; blades narrowly linear, 1–2(–3) mm wide or thick, mostly strongly involute or adaxially deeply sulcate, margins scabridulous, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: anthelae mostly compound, ascending-branched, longer than broad; scapes wandlike, narrowly linear, 1.5–2(–3) mm thick, distally round or slightly compressed; proximalmost leafy involucral bract mostly shorter than anthela or equaling it, rarely slightly longer. <b>Spikelets</b> chestnut brown to dull brown, ellipsoid, ovoid, or cylindric, 5–20 mm; fertile scales broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 3.5–4.5 mm, apex rounded, sometimes ciliolate, midrib reaching tip or excurrent as short mucro. <b>Flowers</b>: stamens 2–3; styles 2-fid, flat, fimbriate. <b>Achenes</b> lustrous brown, lenticular-obovoid or obpyriform, 1.5–2 mm, appearing striate, with many fine, vertical lines of isodiametric pits. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall, all year southward.
|habitat=Salt marsh and brackish marsh inland
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies (Antilles);Central America.
|discussion=<p><i>Fimbristylis castanea</i>, commonly placed in synonymy of F. spadicea (Linnaeus) Vahl, a widespread salt marsh perennial of tropical America, is distinguishable by its relatively shorter spikelets, usually lower habit, and by its proportionately shorter involucral bracts. <i>Fimbristylis</i> spadicea is hardy with us only as a greenhouse plant.</p>
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name=Fimbristylis castanea
|author=
|authority=(Michaux) Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fimbristylis cylindrica;Fimbristylis spadicea var. castanea
|basionyms=Scirpus castaneus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall, all year southward.
|habitat=Salt marsh and brackish marsh inland
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies (Antilles);Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_199.xml
|genus=Fimbristylis
|species=Fimbristylis castanea
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