View source for Rhynchospora kunthii

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora kunthii
|accepted_authority=Nees ex Kunth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 296. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora schaffneri
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora kunthii
|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 kunthii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 205, 224
|treatment_page=page 225
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>solitary or in small tufts, (5–)10–70 cm, clonal; rhizomes strongly present, stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> leafiest toward base, ± trigonous, slender. <b>Leaves</b>: basal leaves spreadingascending, distal more erect, mostly exceeded by culms (except in highaltitude forms); blades proximally flat or strongly folded, 1.5–4 mm wide, apex trigonous, subulate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters (2–)3–5, compact, proximalmost widely spaced, turbinate to ovoid; peduncles ascending; branches ascending to spreading; leaf bracts exceeding proximalmost clusters, exceeded by distal cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> deep redbrown to nearly black, ovoid, 3–4 mm, apex acute; fertile scales ovate, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute, midrib included or shortexcurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, some short, some extending to or nearly to tubercle base, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 2–3 per spikelet, 2–2.1 mm; body pale yellowbrown, lenticular, broadly ellipsoidobovoid, 1.3–1.6 × 1–1.2 mm; surfaces transversely irregularly rugulose, intervals with rows of vertical, narrowly rectangular alveolae; tubercle evenly or concavely triangular, 0.5–0.6(–0.7) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Marsh meadows, seeps, boggy sites
|elevation=1000–3500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico;South America (Colombia).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora kunthii
|authority=Nees ex Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhynchospora schaffneri
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Marsh meadows, seeps, boggy sites
|elevation=1000–3500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico;South America (Colombia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_396.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora kunthii
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