View source for Rhynchospora torreyana

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora torreyana
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=3: 197. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum torreyanum
|authority=(A. Gray) House
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora torreyana
|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 torreyana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 204
|treatment_page=page 224
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 50–100 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> ascending-excurved, leafy, ± terete, slender. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, overtopped by culm; blades narrowly linear, proximally flat, 2–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters (1–)2–3, widely spaced, open to dense, broadly to narrowly turbinate, branches ascending to slightly spreading, capillary; leafy bracts setaceous-tipped, overtopping all but distal clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> light red-brown, ovoid, 3.5–5 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm, apex acute, midrib excurrent as cusp or mucro. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, reaching at most 2/3 length of fruit body, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1–4(–5) per spikelet, 2 mm; body brown, strongly compressed, obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.4–1.6 × 1–1.2 mm, margins flowing to tubercle; surfaces finely transversely rugose, intervals with narrow vertical alveolae; tubercle flat, low-triangular, 0.2–0.3(–0.5) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of low meadows, savannas, flatwoods, pond shores, ditch banks
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
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name=Rhynchospora torreyana
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum torreyanum
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of low meadows, savannas, flatwoods, pond shores, ditch banks
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1835
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora torreyana
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