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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora elliottii
|accepted_authority=A. Dietrich
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 69. 1833
|year=1833
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scirpus schoenoides
|authority=Elliott
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1816
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum schoenoides
|authority=(Alph. Wood) House
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora multiflora
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora schoenoides
|authority=Alph. Wood
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora elliottii
|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 elliottii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 205, 228, 230
|treatment_page=page 229
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 80–150 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect with arching tops, leafy, obscurely trigonous, slender. <b>Leaves</b> overtopped by inflorescence; blades linear, proximally flat, 3–5 mm wide, apex trigonous, subulate, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters mostly 4–6, various in shape and crowding, narrowly to broadly turbinate; peduncles erect, branches slender, ascending; leafy bracts exceeding all but most distal clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> redbrown, broadly ellipsoid, (1.5–)2–3(–3.5) mm, apex acute; fertile scales broadly ovate, 2–3 mm, midrib excurrent as apiculus or awn. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, mostly spreading, usually exceeding tubercle, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 2–3(–4) per spikelet, 1.5(–1.7) mm; body pale brown to brown, strongly flattened, obovoidorbicular, 1–1.2 × 0.8–1.1; surfaces transversely wavyrugose, intervals vertically striate with very narrowly rectangular alveolae; tubercle flat, triangular or concavely triangular, 0.3–0.5(–0.7) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall or all year (south).
|habitat=Sands and peats of bogs, shorelines, interdunal swales, savannas, and pine flatwoods
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora elliottii</i> is most likely to be confused in the field with its frequent associates <i>R. microcarpa</i> and <i>R. perplexa</i>. Most of the time it can be distinguished from both by its taller, coarser, broader-leaved habit and by its distinctly redder spikelets. Inspection of the fruit reveals the spreading character of the perianth bristles, these usually a length level with the tubercle tip or longer and giving the whole structure the appearance of an unengorged tick.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora elliottii
|authority=A. Dietrich
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum schoenoides;Rhynchospora multiflora;Rhynchospora schoenoides
|basionyms=Scirpus schoenoides
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall or all year (south).
|habitat=Sands and peats of bogs, shorelines, interdunal swales, savannas, and pine flatwoods
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1833
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_404.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora elliottii
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