View source for Scirpus ancistrochaetus

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|accepted_name=Scirpus ancistrochaetus
|accepted_authority=Schuyler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=64: 44, plate 1266, fig. 1. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Scirpe à crochets
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scirpus;Scirpus ancistrochaetus
|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 ancistrochaetus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 10, 14, 15
|treatment_page=page 16
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes brownish, short, tough, fibrous. <b>Culms</b>: fertile ones upright or reclining; nodes sometimes with axillary bulblets. <b>Leaves</b> 5–9 per culm; sheaths of proximal leaves green to whitish or brown; proximal sheaths and blades with septa many, conspicuous; blades 32–68 cm × 7–13(–16) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, rarely also with 1 lateral inflorescence from distal leaf axil; rays all arching or sometimes 1 or 2 ascending, distal branches scabrous, proximal branches smooth, rarely scabrellous, rays sometimes with axillary bulblets; bases of involucral bracts green, margins usually speckled with red-brown, not glutinous. <b>Spikelets</b> in clusters of 2–18 (largest cluster with 8 or more), spikelets sessile, ovoid to narrowly ovoid, 3–5 × 2–3 mm; scales brown or blackish brown with greenish midribs, elliptic, 1.5–2.5 mm, apex slightly mucronate, mucro 0.05–0.1(–0.2) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles persistent, 6, stout, straight or curved, slightly shorter to slightly longer than achene, with retrorse, thick-walled, sharp-pointed teeth densely arranged in distal 0.6–0.9, enclosed within scales; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, elliptic to obovate in outline, plano-convex, 1.1–1.7 × 0.6–0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (Jul).
|habitat=Growing in wet depressions, bogs, sinkhole ponds, or adjacent to pools
|elevation=100–1100 m
|distribution=Que.;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Scirpus ancistrochaetus</i> occasionally hybridizes with <i>S. hattorianus</i>. <i>Scirpus ancistrochaetus</i> once grew in Washington County, New York; it is apparently no longer present in the state.</p><!--
--><p><i>Scirpus ancistrochaetus</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Scirpus ancistrochaetus
|authority=Schuyler
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer (Jul).
|habitat=Growing in wet depressions, bogs, sinkhole ponds, or adjacent to pools
|elevation=100–1100 m
|distribution=Que.;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1962
|special status=
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|genus=Scirpus
|species=Scirpus ancistrochaetus
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