View source for Rhynchospora pallida

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora pallida
|accepted_authority=M. A. Curtis
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2: 7: 409. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora curtisii
|authority=Steudel
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum pallidum
|authority=(M. A. Curtis) House
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora pallida
|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 pallida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 207, 235
|treatment_page=page 238
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 40–100 cm, base bulbous; rhizomes stoloniferous, short, wiry. <b>Culms</b> erect or excurved, linear, leafy, trigonous, slender. <b>Leaves</b> slightly to much exceeded by culm; blades ascending, narrowly linear, proximally flat, 1–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering gradually, setaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; spikelet single, terminal cluster of spikelets crowded, hemispheric, 2.5 cm wide; leafy bracts linearsetaceous, much exceeding cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> whitish to tan, narrowly lanceoloid, (3.5–)4–5.5 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales lanceolate, 3.5–4(–4.5) mm, apex narrowly acute, minutely awned or apiculate. <b>Flowers</b>: bristles vestigial or obsolete. <b>Fruits</b> 1 per spikelet, (1.9–)2–2.3 mm; body brown with pale center, lenticular, broadly ellipsoid, 1.5–2 × 1.5 mm, margins flowing to tubercle; surfaces longitudinally finely striate; tubercle depressedtriangular, 0.2–0.3(–0.4) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of clearings in pine flatwoods, barrens, and savannas
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Del.;Md.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora pallida
|author=
|authority=M. A. Curtis
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum pallidum
|basionyms=Rhynchospora curtisii
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of clearings in pine flatwoods, barrens, and savannas
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Del.;Md.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora pallida
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