View source for Rhynchospora divergens

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora divergens
|accepted_authority=Chapman ex M. A. Curtis
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 7: 409. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora divergens
|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 divergens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 203, 221
|treatment_page=page 220
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, 10–60 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect or spreadingarching, linearfiliform, terete, leafy toward base. <b>Leaves</b> overtopped by culm; blades ascending, filiform, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, margins deeply involute, then channeled, apex trigonous, setaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters 1–2(–4), dense(–open), narrowly to broadly turbinate; branches capillary, variously elongate; leafy bracts setaceous, proximal exceeding clusters. <b>Spikelets</b> brownish, lanceellipsoid to fusiform, 2–2.5(–3) mm, apex acute; fertile scales broadly elliptic, 1.5 mm, apex narrowly rounded to broadly acute, apiculate, convexcupulate, midrib narrow, shortexcurrent or included. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> 1–3 or more per spikelet, (0.6–)0.7–0.9(–1) mm; body pale, glassy, obovoidlenticular, 0.6–0.7 × 0.4–0.5 mm, margins narrow, wirelike; surfaces finely striate, very finely reticulate; tubercle button depressedtriangular or patelliform, 0.1–0.15 mm, apiculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall or all year (south).
|habitat=Moist sands, peats, silts or clays of low meadows, bogs, flatwoods, sometimes seeps over calcareous rock
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Dominican Republic);Central America.
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name=Rhynchospora divergens
|author=
|authority=Chapman ex M. A. Curtis
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall or all year (south).
|habitat=Moist sands, peats, silts or clays of low meadows, bogs, flatwoods, sometimes seeps over calcareous rock
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Dominican Republic);Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora divergens
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