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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora intermedia
|accepted_authority=(Chapman) Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. New York Acad. Sci.
|place=11: 87. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora plumosa var. intermedia
|authority=Chapman
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=524. 1860
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum intermedium
|authority=(Chapman) House
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora intermedia
|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 intermedia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 217
|treatment_page=page 219
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mostly densely cespitose, 20–70 cm, base deep rich redbrown; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect to ascending, leafy, stiff. <b>Leaves</b> shorter than scape; blades narrowly linear, (1–)2–3 mm wide, margins involute, apex trigonous, tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: clusters 1–2, if 2 then close together, dense, broadly turbinate to hemispheric or lobedglobose; primary leafy bract linear, stiff, exceeding clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> light to dark redbrown, lanceovoid, 3.5–6 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales ovate, convex, 3–3.5(–4) mm, apex acuminate, low midrib excurrent or not. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, reaching at least to tubercle base, plumose from base to more than 1/2 length of fruit body. <b>Fruits</b> 1(–2) per spikelet, (2–)2.5–2.8(–3) mm; body redbrown or brown, tumidly obovoid, (1.5–)2–2.2 × 1–1.7 mm; surfaces interruptedly transversely rugulose; tubercle broadly conic, 0.5–0.8(–1) mm, base broadly 2lobed, apex often apiculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall or all year.
|habitat=Sands and sandy peat of bog margins, pinelands and pine saw palmetto flats among wiregrass
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Cuba).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora intermedia</i> is distinguished from taller extremes of <i>R. plumosa</i> by its thicker leaves and scapes and its longer spikelets and fruit. Its bases are a deep rich red-brown rather than the pale brown or dull deep brown of <i>R. plumosa</i>.</p>
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name=Rhynchospora intermedia
|authority=(Chapman) Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum intermedium
|basionyms=Rhynchospora plumosa var. intermedia
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–fall or all year.
|habitat=Sands and sandy peat of bog margins, pinelands and pine saw palmetto flats among wiregrass
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew, addit. ser.
|publication year=1908
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora intermedia
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