View source for Scirpus divaricatus

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|accepted_name=Scirpus divaricatus
|accepted_authority=Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=1: 88, plate 2, fig. 4. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scirpus;Scirpus divaricatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scirpus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scirpus divaricatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 10, 12
|treatment_page=page 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes not apparent. <b>Culms</b>: fertile ones lax, reclining, inflorescences lopping over to (or nearly to) ground; nodes frequently with axillary bulblets. <b>Leaves</b> 10–18 per culm; proximal leaf sheaths green or brownish; proximal sheaths and blades with septa few, inconspicuous; blades 16–55 cm × 4–8 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; rays divergent, proximal rays smooth, pedicels and distal rays scabrous, rays often bearing axillary bulblets; bases of involucral bracts green or brownish, not glutinous. <b>Spikelets</b> in open cymes, central spikelet of each cyme sessile, others long-pedicellate, spikelets cylindric to narrowly ovoid, 4–14 × 1–2 mm; scales light brown to reddish with broad green midribs, broadly ovate or elliptic, 1.2–1.8 mm, apex rounded to obtuse, apiculate, or sometimes short-mucronate, apiculus or mucro (if present) to 0.1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles persistent, 6, stout, contorted, equaling or longer than achene, not projecting beyond it, with delicate, round-tipped, retrorse teeth in distal 1/2, enclosed within scales; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> off-white to yellowish brown, elliptic-obovate in outline, strongly trigonous with very strong angles and concave sides, 0.8–1 × 0.6–0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Lowland swamps along streams (often associated with Taxodium)
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>The inflorescence of <i>Scirpus divaricatus</i> is very large and open. As in related species, the central spikelet of each cyme is sessile, and the others are long-pedicellate. The cymes often consist of only two spikelets in which the sessile, terminal spikelet may appear lateral.</p>
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name=Scirpus divaricatus
|authority=Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Lowland swamps along streams (often associated with Taxodium)
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1816
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Scirpus
|species=Scirpus divaricatus
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