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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Scleria oligantha
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 167. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria oligantha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scleria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scleria oligantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 243, 246, 248
|treatment_page=page 247
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes elongate, nodulose, to 5 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> usually in tufts, erect, slender, 30–60(–70) cm, sometimes appearing weak, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths purple tinged, the distal rosy red-tinged, usually narrowly winged, ribbed, pubescent or glabrous; contra-ligules ovate; blades linear, ribbed, shorter than or equaling culms, 2–6 mm wide, glabrous or ciliate to scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, of 2–5 small clusters, 5–20 × 5–10 mm, each with 1–4 spikelets; the lateral on reddish filiform peduncles dilated toward apex, hairy or scabrous on angles; bracts subtending inflorescence leaflike, linear-lanceolate, 3–10 cm, glabrous or ciliate. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual and staminate, staminate part frequently reduced in bisexual spikelets, purple tinged, 3–8 mm; staminate scales lanceolate; pistillate scales ovate, acuminate. <b>Achenes</b> white or grayish or grayish brown with dark longitudinal bands, ovoid, shorter than scales, 3–4 mm, smooth, shining, apex umbonate; hypogynium golden brown, rather broad, base obtuse-trigonous, supporting 8–9 small, round or elongate, granulose-spiculose tubercles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mixed mesic to xeric woods or glades, wet meadows
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala;Honduras)
|discussion=<p><i>Scleria oligantha</i> sometimes extends from its typical wooded habitat to open areas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scleria oligantha
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mixed mesic to xeric woods or glades, wet meadows
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala;Honduras)
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_443.xml
|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria oligantha
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