View source for Rhynchospora tracyi

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora tracyi
|accepted_authority=Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. New York Acad. Sci.
|place=11: 84. 1892
|year=1892
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ceratoschoenus capitatus
|authority=Chapman
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum tracyi
|authority=(Britton) House
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Schoenus triceps
|authority=Vahl
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora tracyi
|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 tracyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 200, 201, 208, 209
|treatment_page=page 207
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, clonal, to 120 cm; rhizomes scaly, slender, less than 2 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> erect, leafybased, wandlike, nearly terete, multiribbed. <b>Leaves</b> ascending or erect, longest nearly equaling culm; principal blades linear, involutecylindric, to 3 mm wide, apex tapering, subulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, heads 1–4, dense, macelike, 1–1.5 mm thick; involucral bracts leafy, proximalmost overtopping inflorescence. <b>Spikelets</b> greenish, lanceovoid, 5–6 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales boat-shaped, 5 mm, apex acute to shortacuminate, midrib slightly excurrent or not. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, exceeding fruit body, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1 per spikelet, 6–8(–8.7) mm; body pale greenbrown, laterally compressed, obcordiform, 2.5–3(–4) mm, margins thick, rounded, not crimped, apex barely exserted, setulose, surfaces nearly plane, minutely cancellate (latticed); tubercle (style base) linear, angled, 4–6 mm, much narrower than fruit summit, setulose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Emergent in shallows of cypress domes, marshes and swales, ditches and ponds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America (Belize).
|discussion=<p>Rhynchospora tracyi frequently forms clones extending for acres by means of its long slender rhizomes. Its wandlike, terete, supple culms, and round-capitate clusters of spikelets suggest a rush more than a sedge.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora tracyi
|author=
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum tracyi;Schoenus triceps
|basionyms=Ceratoschoenus capitatus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Emergent in shallows of cypress domes, marshes and swales, ditches and ponds
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America (Belize).
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. New York Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1892
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_355.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora tracyi
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