View source for Rhynchospora capillacea

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora capillacea
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Middle United States
|place=1: 55. 1823
|year=1823
}}
|common_names=Rhynchospore capillaire
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora setacea
|authority=(Muhlenberg) MacMillan
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1892
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum capillaceum
|authority=(Torrey) Farwell
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Triodon capillaceus
|authority=(Torrey) Farwell
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora capillacea
|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 capillacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 202, 214
|treatment_page=page 213
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 10–40 cm, wiry; rhizomes stoloniferous, slender, to 1.5 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> erect or curved, leafy, filiform, angularly fewribbed. <b>Leaves</b> ascending-excurved, overtopped by culm; blades filiform, involute, apex setaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 1–2(–3), often sparse, ellipsoid or narrowly turbinate, less than 1 cm wide; subtending foliaceous bracts exceeding compounds. <b>Spikelets</b> erect or ascending, pale redbrown to brown, fusiform, 6–7 mm; fertile scales elliptic, 4 mm, apex rounded or acute, midrib shortexcurrent or not. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, overtopping tubercle base, mostly retrorsely barbellate, sometimes smooth [forma laeviseta (E. J. <b>Hill</b>) Fernald]. <b>Fruits</b> 1–4(–5) per spikelet, 2.5–3 mm; body pale brown, slender stipitate, ellipsoid, lenticular, 1.5–2 × 0.8–1 mm; surfaces longitudinally minutely striate, obscurely transversely lowrugose, dotted; tubercle narrowly triangularsubulate, flattened, 0.8–1.7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet calcareous fens, seeps over limestones or calcareous rock, marsh meadows
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>The two beakrushes most commonly occurring in fens are <i>Rhynchospora capillacea</i> and <i>R. capitellata</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora capillacea
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum capillaceum;Triodon capillaceus
|basionyms=Rhynchospora setacea
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet calcareous fens, seeps over limestones or calcareous rock, marsh meadows
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Middle United States
|publication year=1823
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_367.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora capillacea
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