View source for Rhynchospora microcephala

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora microcephala
|accepted_authority=(Britton) Britton ex Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|place=195. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora axillaris var. microcephala
|authority=Britton
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Trans. New York Acad. Sci.
|publication_place=11: 89. 1892 (as Rynchospora)
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora cephalantha var. microcephala
|authority=(Britton) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora microcephala
|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 microcephala]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 202, 212
|treatment_page=page 213
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 30–90 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> arching or erect, leafy, nearly terete, multiribbed, slender. <b>Principal</b> leaves overtopped by culm; blades linear, proximally flattened, 1–3 mm wide, apex tapering, trigonous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 2–6, mostly widely spaced; clusters dense, hemispheric to mostly spheroid, 0.5–1 cm thick. <b>Spikelets</b> dark redbrown to dark brown, lanceovoid, (2–)2.5–3.5(–4) mm, apex acute; fertile scales elliptic, 2–3 mm, apex acute, midrib shortexcurrent or not. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, reaching tubercle tip, retrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1 per spikelet, 2.5–3 mm; body pale brown with light center, lenticular, obovoid distal to stipe, 1.1–1.5 × 0.9–1.1 mm, margins pale, wirelike, surfaces slick; tubercle triangularsubulate, 0.9–1.2(–1.5) mm, at least 0.5 mm wide at base.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and sandy peats of savanna swales, pineland seeps, bogs, ditches, pond shores and banks
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;West Indies (Cuba).
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name=Rhynchospora microcephala
|authority=(Britton) Britton ex Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhynchospora cephalantha var. microcephala
|basionyms=Rhynchospora axillaris var. microcephala
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and sandy peats of savanna swales, pineland seeps, bogs, ditches, pond shores and banks
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication year=1903
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_366.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora microcephala
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