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|accepted_name=Scleria minor
|accepted_authority=(Britton) W. Stone
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. S. New Jersey,
|place=283. 1912
|year=1912
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scleria triglomerata var. minor
|authority=Britton
|rank=variety
|publication_title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S.
|publication_place=1: 282. 1896
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria minor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scleria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scleria minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 247
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes clustered, nodulose, rather slender, to 3 mm thick, hard. <b>Culms</b> in tufts, usually filiform, very slender, 35–80 cm, base 1–2 mm thick, glabrous or nearly so, somewhat scabrous toward apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths purple tinged, scarcely winged, glabrous or minutely pilose; contra-ligules ovate, quite short, rigid; blades attenuate, keeled, shorter than culms, 1–2.5 mm wide, usually glabrous or nearly so. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, fasciculate; fascicles (1–)2(–3), 10–18 × 4–8 mm, each with 1–5 spikelets, the lateral on long filiform peduncles; bracts subtending inflorescence leaflike, lanceolate, 3–9 cm, long acuminate-attenuate, usually glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual and staminate, brown, 3–6 mm; staminate scales lanceolate-acuminate, pistillate scales ovate, midrib excurrent, awnlike. <b>Achenes</b> brownish gray or with dark longitudinal bands, ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, smooth, shining, apex distinctly umbonate; hypogynium somewhat reduced, obscurely 3-angled, low, covered with whitish siliceous, papillose-spiculose crust.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet sandy or peaty soils in pinelands and savannas or boggy areas
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Scleria minor</i> is mostly confined to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains; inland at higher elevations it is very uncommon and usually found in bogs. Some authors subsume the species under a broadly conceived <i>S. triglomerata</i> (R. K. Godfrey and J. W. Wooten 1979; J. W. Kessler 1987).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scleria minor
|authority=(Britton) W. Stone
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Scleria triglomerata var. minor
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet sandy or peaty soils in pinelands and savannas or boggy areas
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pl. S. New Jersey,
|publication year=1912
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria minor
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