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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Scleria georgiana
|accepted_authority=Core
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=1: 243. 1934
|year=1934
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scleria gracilis
|authority=Elliott
|publication_title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication_place=2: 557. 1824,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria georgiana
|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 georgiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 243
|treatment_page=page 245
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes horizontal, nodulose. <b>Culms</b> sometimes in tufts, erect, slender, 30–50 cm, wiry, glabrous, trigonous, base somewhat swollen, brown. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths purplish, wingless, weakly ribbed, glabrous or minutely hirsute; contra-ligules absent; blades linear or filiform, shorter than culms, resembling them, strongly keeled, 1–2 mm wide, glabrous or slightly scabrous on margins. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 0.4–1 cm; fascicles 1, 4–10 mm wide, each with 1–5(–8) spikelets; bracts subtending inflorescence awl-shaped, 1–9(–11) cm, glabrous, appearing to be continuation of culm. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual and staminate, 4–6(–7) mm; staminate scales lanceolate, membranous, pistillate scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. <b>Achenes</b> dull white or often light to dark gray, trigonous, ovoid, usually ribbed with 3 ridges extending from base along angles to apex, 2–3 mm, glabrous, base trigonous, pointed, 6-porose with 2 yellowish, granulose pits on each somewhat concave side, apex mucronate; hypogynium obsolete, reduced to minute brownish ring distal to pointed base.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet, sandy, peaty soils in pinelands and savannas or moist, sandy waste areas, shallow standing water
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba;Dominican Republic;Jamaica);Central America (Belize;Nicaragua).
|discussion=<p>The illegitimate name <i>Scleria</i> gracilis Elliott has been used for <i>S. georgiana</i>.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scleria georgiana
|author=
|authority=Core
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Scleria gracilis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet, sandy, peaty soils in pinelands and savannas or moist, sandy waste areas, shallow standing water
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba;Dominican Republic;Jamaica);Central America (Belize;Nicaragua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1934
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_438.xml
|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria georgiana
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