View source for Xyris smalliana

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|accepted_name=Xyris smalliana
|accepted_authority=Nash
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
|place=22:159. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris caroliniana var. olneyi
|authority=A. W. Wood
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris congdonii
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris smalliana var. congdonii
|authority=(Small) Malme
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xyris smalliana var. olneyi
|authority=(A. W. Wood) Gleason ex Malme
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Xyridaceae;Xyris;Xyris smalliana
|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 smalliana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, 50–150 cm. <b>Stems</b> compact. <b>Leaves</b> ascending in narrow fans, (19–)30–50(–60) cm; sheaths pinkish or pale red, soft, smooth; blade pale green proximally, distally deep lustrous green, linear, flattened, plane, 5–15 mm wide, margins smooth. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths exceeded by leaves; scapes linear, straight, distally slightly compressed, 1–2 mm wide, smooth, 2-ribbed; spikes ovoid to ellipsoid or cylindric, 10–20(–25) mm, apex usually blunt; fertile bracts 5–8 mm, margins entire, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: lateral sepals slightly to conspicuously exserted, slightly curved, 6–8 mm, keel scarious, apex not red, broad, thin, lacerate; petals unfolding in afternoon, blade obovate, 5–6 mm; staminodes bearded. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, narrowly ellipsoid to ovoid, (0.6–)0.7(–0.8 mm), irregularly ridged and cross-ridged. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy or peaty shallows and shores of ponds and sluggish acidic streams
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba);Mexico (Tabasco);West Indies (Cuba);Central America (Belize;Honduras;Nicaragua).
|discussion=<p>Although no specimens were seen for Virginia, <i>Xyris smalliana</i> is to be expected there.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Xyris smalliana
|authority=Nash
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Xyris caroliniana var. olneyi;Xyris congdonii;Xyris smalliana var. congdonii;Xyris smalliana var. olneyi
|basionyms=
|family=Xyridaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy or peaty shallows and shores of ponds and sluggish acidic streams
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Cuba);Mexico (Tabasco);West Indies (Cuba);Central America (Belize;Honduras;Nicaragua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
|publication year=1895
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_27.xml
|genus=Xyris
|species=Xyris smalliana
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