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|accepted_name=Scirpus polyphyllus
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 274. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scirpus;Scirpus polyphyllus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scirpus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scirpus polyphyllus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 10, 15, 17
|treatment_page=page 16
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes short, tough, fibrous. <b>Culms</b>: fertile ones erect or reclining; nodes sometimes with axillary bulblets. <b>Leaves</b> 14–22(–26) per culm; sheaths of proximal leaves green or brownish; proximal sheaths and blades with septa usually few, inconspicuous; blades 16–31 cm × 5–8 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, rarely also with 1 lateral inflorescence from distal leaf axil; rays divaricate, smooth throughout or scabrous distally, rays usually with axillary bulblets; bases of involucral bracts green, not glutinous. <b>Spikelets</b> in dense clusters of 3–9 (largest cluster with 6 or more), spikelets sessile, broadly ovoid, 2.5–4 × 1.6–3 mm; scales reddish brown with green midribs, circular or nearly so, 1–1.5 mm, apex mucronate or occasionally short-awned, mucro or awn 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles persistent, 6, stout, contorted, much longer than achene and projecting beyond it, retrorsely barbed in distal 1/2, exserted from scales at maturity; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, obovate or nearly obtriangular in outline, plumply trigonous or plano-convex, 1.1–1.4(–1.8) × 0.8–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 58.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jul–Aug).
|habitat=Along wooded streams and other swampy places, usually shaded by trees
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Scirpus polyphyllus</i> occasionally hybridizes with <i>S. atrovirens</i>.</p>
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name=Scirpus polyphyllus
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jul–Aug).
|habitat=Along wooded streams and other swampy places, usually shaded by trees
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_12.xml
|genus=Scirpus
|species=Scirpus polyphyllus
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