View source for Rhynchospora solitaria

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora solitaria
|accepted_authority=R. M. Harper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=28: 468. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora solitaria
|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 solitaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 207
|treatment_page=page 238
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, solitary or cespitose, 50–60 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect to ascending, narrowly linear, wandlike, terete, leafy proximal to middle. <b>Leaves</b> erect to ascending; blades proximally flat, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, apex tapering, tip abruptly blunt. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, cluster of spikelets crowded, broadly turbinate to hemispheric, to 1.5 cm wide; leafy bracts linearsetaceous, slightly exceeding cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> orangebrown, lancefusiform, 6–7 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales lanceovate, 4–5 mm, apex acuminate with excurved awn to 1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: bristles 3–4, some reaching tubercle tip, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1–2 per spikelet, 2–2.1 mm; body brown with paler center, obovoidlenticular, 1.5–1.7 × 1.2–1.3 mm, margins flowing to tubercle; surfaces finely transversely striate with minute pits; tubercle lowtriangular, 0.3–0.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy peat of depressions in pine flatwoods savannas, edges of hillside bogs
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ga.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Rhynchospora solitaria appears to be the least common North American species of Rhynchospora with two of the five given localities apparently lost. The name “solitaria” is deceptive; the plants sometimes form small tufts of culms. The most distinctive feature in the field is the attractive orangebrown color of the narrow, acuminate, bristlescaled spikelets.</p>
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name=Rhynchospora solitaria
|author=
|authority=R. M. Harper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy peat of depressions in pine flatwoods savannas, edges of hillside bogs
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1901
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora solitaria
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