Rhynchospora odorata |
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fragrant beaksedge |
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Habit | Plants perennial, cespitose, 100–180 cm; rhizomes often present, short, scaly. |
Culms | erect to ascending, leafy, slender, angular. |
Leaves | exceeded by culm; blades linear, proximally flat, 3–6 mm wide, apex tapering, trigonous, subulate. |
Inflorescences | of terminal and axillary clusters, 3–5, proximalmost widely spaced, turbinate or lobed, fascicles dense, branches ascending; leafy bracts exceeding all but proximalmost clusters. |
Spikelets | rich redbrown, ovoid, (4–)5–6(–7) mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales ovate, (3.5–)4–5 mm, apex acuminate, midrib short or longexcurrent. |
Flowers | perianth bristles 6, reaching past tubercle, antrorsely barbellate. |
Fruits | mostly 3–4(–7) per spikelet, 3 mm with pedicellar joint and tubercle; body pale yellowbrown, obovoidlenticular, 1.4–1.7 × 1.4 × 1.5; surfaces transversely finely wavyrugulose, intervals vertically rectangularalveolate; pedicellar joint 0.3–0.6 mm; tubercle compressed, triangularacuminate, 0.5–0.6 (–1) mm, margin setulose. |
Rhynchospora odorata |
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Phenology | Fruiting summer–fall or all year (south). |
Habitat | Sands and peats of swamps, marshes, interdunal swales, low meadows, savannas |
Elevation | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; NC; SC; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica)
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Source | FNA vol. 23, p. 223. |
Parent taxa | Cyperaceae > Rhynchospora |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Phaeocephalum stipitatum, R. stipitata |
Name authority | C. Wright ex Grisebach: Cat. Pl. Cub., 242. (1866) |
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