View source for Rhynchospora inexpansa

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora inexpansa
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 232. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Schoenus inexpansus
|authority=Michaux
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora inexpansa
|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 inexpansa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 204
|treatment_page=page 222
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 30–120 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> arching, leafy, droopingtipped, ± terete, ribbed, slender. <b>Principal</b> leaves exceeded by culm; blades spreading to ascending, narrowly linear, proximally flat, 2–3.5 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: clusters of spikelets 3–6, progressively wider-spaced proximally, narrow, elongate; leafy bracts slender, mostly exceeding clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> redbrown, lanceoloid, 5–7 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales narrowly ovate, 4–5 mm, apex acuminate, midrib included or shortexcurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, exceeding tubercle, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> (1–)2–3(–4) per spikelet, 3–3.2 mm; body brown, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, flattened, 2 × 0.8–1 mm; surface strongly transversely wavyrugose, vertically finely striate between ridges; tubercle compressed, narrowly triangular-subulate, 1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands, peats, clays, and silts of moist meadows, shores of ponds, flatwoods, disturbed low areas
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora inexpansa
|author=
|authority=(Michaux) Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Schoenus inexpansus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands, peats, clays, and silts of moist meadows, shores of ponds, flatwoods, disturbed low areas
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora inexpansa
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