View source for Xyris serotina

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|accepted_name=Xyris serotina
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.
|place=500. 1860
|year=1860
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris serotina
|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 serotina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, densely cespitose, 20–60 cm, base thickened. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> in fans, 15–20 cm; sheaths straw-colored to dark brown, dull, papillate to rugose, minutely scabrous; blade dull green, flattened, plane, 3–12 mm wide, papillate to minutely scabrous, margins minutely scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths exceeded slightly by leaves; scapes straight, linear, terete, distally slightly compressed or broadly oval, to 2 mm, rugulose, minutely scabrous, strongly 2-ribbed, ribs minutely scabrous; spikes prevalently ovoid to ellipsoid, 8–20 mm, apex acute; fertile bracts 5–7 mm, margins entire, apex shape rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals included, dark brown, slightly curved, 5–7 mm, keel scarious, lacerate; petals unfolding in morning, blade obtriangular, 3–3.5 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> mealy, ellipsoid, 6 mm, lined longitudinally with papillae, less conspicuously cross-lined. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (all year south).
|habitat=Sands and peats of wet pine savanna, cypress pond edges, bogs, ditches
|elevation=0–150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Xyris serotina</i> is perhaps the most distinctive species of Xyrid over its range. Certainly, it is overall the most scabrous in foliage, and its leaves are unusually long in relation to its scapes.</p>
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name=Xyris serotina
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (all year south).
|habitat=Sands and peats of wet pine savanna, cypress pond edges, bogs, ditches
|elevation=0–150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.
|publication year=1860
|special status=
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|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris serotina
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