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|accepted_name=Scleria pauciflora
|accepted_authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 318. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scleria ciliata var. pauciflora
|authority=(Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria pauciflora
|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 pauciflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 244, 248, 250
|treatment_page=page 249
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes clustered, elongate, nodulose, to 5 mm thick, hard. <b>Culms</b> usually in tufts, slender, (15–)20–50 cm, stiff, glabrous or hairy (villous or ciliate in some forms). <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths sometimes reddish, not or scarcely winged, weakly ribbed, short-pubescent or villous; contra-ligules obtuse to triangular, short; blades linear, channeled, obtuse, shorter than or equaling inflorescence, 1–2.5 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes scabrous on margins. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal cluster, sometimes with 1 or 2 axillary clusters, 0.5–1.5 cm, fasciculate; clusters 2–10 mm wide, each with 1–7 spikelets; lateral clusters remote, on long filiform peduncles; bracts subtending inflorescence leaflike, long awl-shaped, often appearing to be continuation of culm, glabrous or ciliate. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual or staminate, 3–6 mm; staminate scales lanceolate, membranous, pistillate scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. <b>Achenes</b> white or gray and/or with black markings, globose or rarely ovoid, 1–2.5(–3) mm, base narrowly constricted, trigonous, apex umbonate, papillate-verrucose, proximal papillae elongate, retrorse, spiculose; hypogynium brownish, bluntly trigonous border, bearing 6 globose tubercles arranged in distinct pairs, usually finely powdery.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies (Cuba).
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Scleria ciliata</i> and <i>S. pauciflora</i> are almost universally regarded as distinct species, even though some authors allude to the existence of varying numbers of transitional specimens. Distinguishing them in the herbarium can sometimes be difficult. Some specimens of <i>S. ciliata</i> have the three tubercles on the hypogynium sufficiently deeply bilobed as to make them difficult to distinguish from the paired, discrete tubercles of <i>S. pauciflora</i>. Achene size and leaf width can be helpful with these problematic specimens. Among recent authors, only R. McVaugh (1993) united <i>S. pauciflora</i> and <i>S. ciliata</i>. The western Mexican specimens studied by McVaugh that prompted his uniting of these two species appear, on closer examination, not to be either intermediate between or clearly referable to either species. Detailed study of tropical material similar to <i>S. pauciflora</i> and <i>S. ciliata</i> is much needed.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fairey1969a
|text=Fairey, J. E. 1969. Scleria pauciflora Muhl. and its varieties in North America. Castanea 34: 87–90.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy but not copiously villous-ciliate, hairs not longer than 0.4 mm.
|[[Scleria pauciflora var. pauciflora|Scleria pauciflora var. pauciflora]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants copiously villous-ciliate with spreading hairs 0.5–1 mm on culms, leaves, and bracts.
|[[Scleria pauciflora var. caroliniana|Scleria pauciflora var. caroliniana]]
|}
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name=Scleria pauciflora
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Scleria ciliata var. pauciflora
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies (Cuba).
|reference=fairey1969a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria pauciflora
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