Rhynchospora floridensis
Florida whitetop
erect to spreading, leafybased;
scapes nearly filiform, nearly trigonous, few ribbed.
spreading to erect, exceeded by scape;
blades filiform to linear, proximally flat or involute, becoming involute, 0.4–2 mm wide, apex tapering, trigonous.
terminal, solitary, headlike, dense, white, leafyinvolucrate, 0.5–1 cm wide;
involucral bracts 3–6, spreading to recurved, whitebased, greentipped, narrowly linear, longest bract elongatesubulate, 4–8 cm × 2–5 mm.
white, ovoid, 4–6 mm;
scales several, boatshaped, basal ones with ciliolate keel, fertile ones 3–3.8 mm.
perianth absent.
1–1.2 mm;
body yellow to black, nearly orbicular, tumidly lenticular, 0.8–1 × 0.6–0.7(–1) mm;
surface lattices shortlinear, vertical in fine undulating rows, with ends raised to rounded, transverse rugulosities;
tubercle lowtriangular, lunate, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute, blunt or apiculate.
Rhynchospora floridensis
Rhynchospora floridensis is much like R. colorata, with which it is often associated; it can be easily distinguished by its strictly cespitose habit and its ciliolate spikelet scale keels.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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