View source for Rhynchospora ciliaris

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|accepted_name=Rhynchospora ciliaris
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) C. Mohr
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=6: 408. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus ciliaris
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 36. 1803
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phaeocephalum ciliatum
|authority=(Michaux) House
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora ciliata
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchospora rappiana
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora ciliaris
|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 ciliaris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 207
|treatment_page=page 237
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, 30–90 cm; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect or ascending, terete to obscurely trigonous, multiribbed, densely leafybased, slender, stiff, papillose to scabridpuberulent. <b>Leaves</b> forming strong rosette, distal widely spaced, much exceeded by scape; basal leaf blades shortlinear, flat, 4–6 mm wide, culm leaf blades narrower, longer, all ciliate, apex bluntly acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; spikelet cluster 1, crowded, hemispheric, often lobed, to 2 cm wide; bracts strongly ciliate distally; longer leafy bracts exceeding cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> dark redbrown, ovoid, 4–5(–6) mm, apex acute; fertile scales broadly ovate, 4–4.5 mm, apex blunt, sometimes apiculate or with mucro to 1 mm, midrib scabrid. <b>Flowers</b>: bristles 6, some vestigial, none reaching past fruit midbody, antrorsely barbellate. <b>Fruits</b> 1–2 per spikelet, (1.9–)2–2.5 mm; body dark brown with paler center, lenticular, broadly ellipsoid to orbicular, 1.6–2 × 1.5–1.6 mm, margins flowing to tubercle; tubercle lowtriangular, 0.5 mm, often apiculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats in bogs, seeps, depressions in savannas, and low open pinelands
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora ciliaris
|authority=(Michaux) C. Mohr
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Phaeocephalum ciliatum;Rhynchospora ciliata;Rhynchospora rappiana
|basionyms=Schoenus ciliaris
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats in bogs, seeps, depressions in savannas, and low open pinelands
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1901
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_424.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora ciliaris
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