View source for Xyris baldwiniana

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|accepted_name=Xyris baldwiniana
|accepted_authority=Schultes in J. A. Schultes and J. H. Schultes
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. A. Schultes and J. H. Schultes,Mant.
|place=1: 351. 1822
|year=1822
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Xyris juncea
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1816,
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris baldwiniana var. tenuifolia
|authority=(Chapman) Malme
|rank=variety
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|name=Xyris setacea
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris baldwiniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Xyridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Xyris baldwiniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, densely cespitose, 15–40(–50) cm. <b>Leaves</b> erect or ascending, 10–30 cm; sheaths glossy light brown or red-brown, firm; blade green, linear to filiform, often angularly terete, or sulcate, rarely to 1mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, straight or flexuous, terete, 1 mm wide, rarely 1-ribbed; spikes ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–7 mm, apex acute; fertile bracts 4–5 mm, margins entire or erose, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals included, reddish brown, slightly curved, less than 5 mm, keel scarious, lacerate from middle to tip; petals unfolding in morning, blade obovate, to 5 mm; staminodes beardless. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, fusiform to cylindric, (0.7–)0.8–1 mm, finely lined longitudinally. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands, sandy peats of bogs, pine savanna, ditches and low cleared areas, coastal plain
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Belize;Honduras;Nicaragua).
|discussion=<p>The beardless staminodes and the long, translucent seeds distinguish <i>Xyris baldwiniana</i>. Its leaf blades vary from terete to flat, and in eastern Texas and North Carolina the flat-leaved ones have been mistaken for <i>X. elliottii</i>. This same problem exists in Floridian narrow-leaved <i>X. elliottii</i>, which bears a strong resemblance to <i>X. baldwiniana</i> but has bearded staminodes and larger spikes.</p>
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name=Xyris baldwiniana
|authority=Schultes in J. A. Schultes and J. H. Schultes
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Xyris baldwiniana var. tenuifolia;Xyris setacea
|basionyms=Xyris juncea
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands, sandy peats of bogs, pine savanna, ditches and low cleared areas, coastal plain
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Belize;Honduras;Nicaragua).
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. A. Schultes and J. H. Schultes,Mant.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_250.xml
|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris baldwiniana
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