View source for Scirpus lineatus

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|accepted_name=Scirpus lineatus
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 32. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus fontinalis
|authority=R. M. Harper
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scirpus;Scirpus lineatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scirpus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scirpus lineatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 9, 13
|treatment_page=page 12
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes short, stout. <b>Culms</b>: fertile ones lax, reclining, inflorescences lopping over to (or nearly to) ground; nodes sometimes with axillary bulblets. <b>Leaves</b> 4–9 per culm; sheaths of proximal leaves whitish; proximal sheaths and blades with septa few, inconspicuous; blades 18–32 cm × 6–13 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary in 2–3 distal leaves; rays ascending or divergent, rays and pedicels scabrous or scabrellous throughout or sometimes only in distal 1/2, rays often bearing axillary bulblets; bases of involucral bracts green, not glutinous. <b>Spikelets</b> in open cymes, central spikelet of each cyme sessile, others long-pedicellate, spikelets ovoid, narrowly ovoid, or narrowly ellipsoid, 4–7(–10) × 2–3 mm; scales brown to red-brown with green midribs, ovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.8–2.5 mm, apex mucronate, mucro 0.1–0.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles persistent, 6, slender, much longer than achene, strongly contorted and not or scarcely projecting beyond it, smooth, enclosed within scales or scarcely projecting beyond them; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, elliptic in outline, plano-convex or plumply trigonous, 1.1–1.5 × 0.6–0.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Usually along wooded streams, often associated with calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Authors prior to 1966 incorrectly applied the name <i>Scirpus lineatus</i> to plants of <i>S. pendulus</i> and treated plants of <i>S. lineatus</i> as <i>S. fontinalis</i> (A. E. Schuyler 1966).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scirpus lineatus
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Scirpus fontinalis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Usually along wooded streams, often associated with calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|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/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_4.xml
|genus=Scirpus
|species=Scirpus lineatus
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