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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora breviseta
|accepted_authority=(Gale) Channell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=58: 336. 1956
|year=1956
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Rhynchospora oligantha var. breviseta
|authority=Gale
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Rhodora
|publication_place=46: 129, plate 821, fig. 2C. 1944
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora breviseta
|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 breviseta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 218
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, knottybased, 20–40 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> leafy at base, filiform, wiry. <b>Leaves</b>: blades filiform, nearly reaching inflorescence tip or much shorter, to 0.3 mm thick, apex tapering. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikelet clusters mostly 2–6, simple or reduced to 1 spikelet, often with 2 capillary branches, one divaricate or reflexed, 1 ascending; leafy bracts single per cluster, filiform, setaceous, with clusters appearing lateral to bracts. <b>Spikelets</b> pale redbrown, ellipsoidlanceoloid, 5–6(–8) mm, apex acute to acuminate; fertile scales narrowly ovate, 3–5(–6) mm, apex acute, midrib included or shortexcurrent. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, not reaching past fruit midbody, stubby, plumose to near tip. <b>Fruits</b> 3–8 per spikelet, 2–2.5 mm; body light brown to brown, ellipsoid-obovoid, tumidly lenticular, 1.5–2 × 1.6–1.7 mm; surfaces faintly, interruptedly crossrugulose, apically indented under tubercle; tubercle lowconic, 0.5 mm, base flaring, circular.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands or peats of bogs, depressions in savannas, open pinelands, pond shores
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora breviseta</i> is sympatric with <i>R. oligantha</i> over much of its range; intergrades have not been seen.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora breviseta
|authority=(Gale) Channell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Rhynchospora oligantha var. breviseta
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands or peats of bogs, depressions in savannas, open pinelands, pond shores
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1956
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora breviseta
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