View source for Rhynchospora careyana

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora careyana
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=20: 140. 1918
|year=1918
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Ceratoschoenus macrostachys var. patulus
|authority=Chapman
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=529. 1860
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora corniculata var. patula
|authority=(Chapman) Britton
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora careyana
|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 careyana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 5, 200, 201, 208
|treatment_page=page 209
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, also strongly clonal, 80–150 cm; rhizomes stoloniferous, scaly, 3–4 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> stiffly erect, leafy, triangular, multiribbed. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, overtopped by inflorescence; principal leaves flat proximally, 3–12 mm wide, apex attenuate, trigonous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary from distal culm nodes, mostly diffuse clusters of corymbs; clusters mostly loose; bracteal leaves usually exceeded by inflorescences. <b>Spikelets</b> red-brown or orangish tint, lanceoloid, 13–18 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales lance-ovate, 10–13 mm, apex acute to acuminate, midrib short-excurrent, minutely scabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: longer perianth bristles extending from near tubercle base to 3 mm beyond, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1–2 per spikelet, 15–24 mm; body pyriform-obovoid, compressed, 4–5 × 2.8–3.5 mm, margins thick; surfaces concave, finely transversely striate, minutely cancellate; tubercle abruptly subulate, 2-grooved, 11–20 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Emergent in pond, lake, and river shallows, mostly acid substrates
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;West Indies (Cuba;Jamaica).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora careyana</i> forms clones as extensive as those of <i>R. tracyi</i> and <i>R. inundata</i> and is often found over acres of pond shallows and wet savanna, often sharing the habitat with R. traceyi. A most interesting and distinctive field feature for <i>R. careyana</i> is the orange tint of its spikelets.</p>
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name=Rhynchospora careyana
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhynchospora corniculata var. patula
|basionyms=Ceratoschoenus macrostachys var. patulus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Emergent in pond, lake, and river shallows, mostly acid substrates
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;West Indies (Cuba;Jamaica).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1918
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_358.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora careyana
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