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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Fuirena scirpoidea
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 38, plate 7. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus scirpoideus
|authority=(Michaux) T. Koyama
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaginaria richardii
|authority=Persoon
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fuirena;Fuirena scirpoidea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fuirena]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fuirena scirpoidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 33
|treatment_page=page 34
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, rhizomatous, 20–60 cm, glabrous; rhizomes elongate, often forking, scaly; corms absent. <b>Culms</b> spaced along rhizome, erect, slender, wandlike, subterete, nodes swollen. <b>Leaves</b> mostly sheath; principal blades cusplike, thickened, rarely over 4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> strictly terminal; spikelets 1 or 2–5, sessile in clusters, exceeding short-linear subtending bract. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid to lance-ovoid, 7–10(–15) mm, apex blunt; fertile scales ovate to obovate, 2.5–3.5 mm, ciliate; mucro erect, 1/2 or less length of scale; median ribs mostly 5. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles equaling or slightly longer than perianth stipes, retrorsely barbellate; perianth blades ovate, as long as claws, 2–2.5 mm, base thinner, 3-ribbed, apex compressed-conic, apiculate; anthers linear-oblong, 2 mm. <b>Achenes</b>: body angles pale, wirelike, faces lustrous red-brown or chestnut brown, 1 mm; beak narrow, linear, distally papillate or scabridulous. <b>2n</b> = 46.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats, inner edges of brackish marsh, interdunal swales, mostly along seacoast
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Fuirena scirpoidea
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Scirpus scirpoideus;Vaginaria richardii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats, inner edges of brackish marsh, interdunal swales, mostly along seacoast
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_45.xml
|genus=Fuirena
|species=Fuirena scirpoidea
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