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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora nitens
|accepted_authority=(Vahl) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Manual ed.
|place=5, 568. 1867
|year=1867
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scirpus nitens
|authority=Vahl
|publication_title=Enum. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 272. 1805
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Isolepis nitens
|authority=(Vahl) Roemer & Schultes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Psilocarya nitens
|authority=(Vahl) Alph. Wood
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Psilocarya rhynchosporoides
|authority=Torrey
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora nitens
|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 nitens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 202
|treatment_page=page 217
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, cespitose or solitary, (10–)20–100 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect, leafy, nearly terete or angled, manyribbed. <b>Principal</b> midculm leaves often exceeding inflorescences; blades linear, proximally flattened, 1–5 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, clusters of corymbs 1–5, usually diffuse; leafy bracts exceeding proximal corymbs. <b>Spikelets</b> 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. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> 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.</span><!--

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|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=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies;Central America.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora nitens
|author=
|authority=(Vahl) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Isolepis nitens;Psilocarya nitens;Psilocarya rhynchosporoides
|basionyms=Scirpus nitens
|family=Cyperaceae
|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=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Manual ed.
|publication year=1867
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_375.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora nitens
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