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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhynchospora colorata
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) H. Pfeiffer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|place=38: 89. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenus coloratus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 43. 1753
}} 
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichromena cephalotes
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichromena colorata
|authority=(Linnaeus) Hitchcock
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichromena leucocephala
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dichromena drummondiana
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Rhynchospora;Rhynchospora colorata
|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 colorata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 201, 216
|treatment_page=page 215
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose or solitary, to 70 cm; rhizomes slender, scaly, to 2 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> erect, slender, leafy-based, trigonous, several-ribbed. <b>Leaves</b> spreading to erect, overtopped by culm; blades narrowly linear, proximally flattened, 0.5–3 mm wide, apex tapering, trigonous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, solitary, headlike, dense, white, leafy-involucrate; involucral bracts several, flaring to recurved, white from broadened base nearly to median, then green to tapered tip, longer bracts 13 cm × 2–7 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> white, ovoid, 5–7 mm, apex acute; fertile scales many, boatshaped, sharply curvedkeeled, 3–4(–5) mm, apex acute or blunt. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> several per spikelet, 1.5–1.7(–2) mm; body yellow to mahogany, broadly pyriformobovoid, tumidly lenticular, 1 × 0.5–0.7 mm, widest at apex, margins thickened, interrupted at base of tubercle; surfaces transversely undulaterugose, ridges contiguous, of shortlinear papillae; tubercle broadly triangular, 0.5–0.6 mm, graycrustaceous, apex short acuminate. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sands, peats, and silt of interdunal swales, shores, meadowy swales, and marsh edges, sometimes fens, usually on circumneutral or basic substrates
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (French Guiana).
|discussion=<p><i>Rhynchospora colorata</i> is a slender and clonal version of <i>R. latifolia</i>, with a distinct preference for more basic substrates; involucral bracts are very slender and have a longer portion of green, usually reaching well proximal to midbract.</p><!--
--><p>See also 16. <i>Rhynchospora latifolia</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhynchospora colorata
|authority=(Linnaeus) H. Pfeiffer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dichromena cephalotes;Dichromena colorata;Dichromena leucocephala;Dichromena drummondiana
|basionyms=Schoenus coloratus
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sands, peats, and silt of interdunal swales, shores, meadowy swales, and marsh edges, sometimes fens, usually on circumneutral or basic substrates
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (French Guiana).
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication year=1935
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_371.xml
|genus=Rhynchospora
|species=Rhynchospora colorata
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