View source for Rhynchospora pleiantha

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora pleiantha
|accepted_authority=(Kükenthal) Gale
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=46: 171. 1944
|year=1944
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora filifolia var. pleiantha
|authority=Kükenthal
|publication_title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication_place=23: 208. 1926
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora pleiantha
|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 pleiantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 206, 232
|treatment_page=page 233
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, 10–40(–53) cm; rhizomes stoloniferous, slender. <b>Culms</b> erect to excurved, leafybased, filiform. <b>Leaves</b> shorter than culm; blades ascending to excurved, filiform, proximally to 1 mm wide, margins involute, apex trigonous, subulate, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 1–3, laterals 0–2, turbinate, rarely hemispheric; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping inflorescence. <b>Spikelets</b> redbrown, narrowly lanceoloid, 5–7 mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm, apex acute, mucronate. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> 2(–5) per spikelet, (1.7–)2–2.2 mm; body on short, setulose receptacular stipe, brown with pale center, obovoidlenticular, 0.8–1.1 mm, surfaces very finely longitudinally lined, sometimes faintly reticulatecancellate; tubercle triangular subulate, 0.7–0.9 mm, base lunate, edges setulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond shores and moist pine savannas, particularly in karst districts
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;West Indies (Cuba).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora pleiantha
|author=
|authority=(Kükenthal) Gale
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Rhynchospora filifolia var. pleiantha
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond shores and moist pine savannas, particularly in karst districts
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1944
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora pleiantha
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