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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora harperi
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man. S.E. Fl.,
|place=182, 1503. 1933
|year=1933
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora leptorhyncha
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1903
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora fascicularis var. harperi
|authority=(Small) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora harperi
|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 harperi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 206, 232
|treatment_page=page 233
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, solitary or cespitose, 50–70 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect to excurved, leafybased, narrowly linear, ± terete. <b>Leaves</b> shorter than culm; blades ascending, narrowly linear, proximally flat or margins slightly involute, 0.5–1(–2) mm wide, distally canaliculate, apex trigonous, tapering, subulate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 1–3, laterals 0–2, all turbinate to hemispheric, terminal internode usually excurved; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping inflorescence. <b>Spikelets</b> redbrown, lanceoloid, 5–7 mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, (2.5–)4–5 mm, apex acute to acuminate; midrib paralleled by several indistinct ribs, excurrent as short awns. <b>Flowers</b>: bristles 6, reaching from mid tubercle to beyond tip. <b>Fruits</b> 3(–4) per spikelet, 2.1–2.5 mm; stipe and receptacle 0.2–0.3 mm, sparsely setose and setulose; body glossy, brown with pale center, obovoid-lenticular, 1.1–1.5 × 1–1.1 mm, surfaces finely longitudinally lined, variably low papillatecancellate, also often transversely with wavy lines of dark dots; tubercle flattened, triangular-subulate, (0.8–)0.9–1(–1.1) mm, setulose-ciliate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of bogs, stream banks, edges of pineland savanna ponds, Hypericum ponds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Central America (Belize).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora harperi</i> is most abundant in a very special habitat referred to here as the “<i>Hypericum</i> pond.” These are typically shallow ponds in pine savannas, frequently ringed by stands of <i>Nyssa</i>, <i>Taxodium</i>, Ilex, and <i>Cyrilla</i>, but most of the pond itself is dominated by one or more myriandrous shrubby <i>Hypericum</i> species. Here <i>R. harperi</i> is distinguished from other species by the often abrupt bend of its ultimate internode.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora harperi
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhynchospora fascicularis var. harperi
|basionyms=Rhynchospora leptorhyncha
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of bogs, stream banks, edges of pineland savanna ponds, Hypericum ponds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Central America (Belize).
|reference=None
|publication title=Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication year=1933
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_413.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora harperi
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