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Scleria georgiana

slenderfruit nutrush
Habit Plants perennial; rhizomes horizontal, nodulose.
Culms

sometimes in tufts, erect, slender, 30–50 cm, wiry, glabrous, trigonous, base somewhat swollen, brown.
Leaves

sheaths purplish, wingless, weakly ribbed, glabrous or minutely hirsute;

contra-ligules absent;

blades linear or filiform, shorter than culms, resembling them, strongly keeled, 1–2 mm wide, glabrous or slightly scabrous on margins.
Inflorescences

terminal, 0.4–1 cm;

fascicles 1, 4–10 mm wide, each with 1–5(–8) spikelets;

bracts subtending inflorescence awl-shaped, 1–9(–11) cm, glabrous, appearing to be continuation of culm.
Spikelets

bisexual and staminate, 4–6(–7) mm;

staminate scales lanceolate, membranous, pistillate scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate.
Achenes

dull white or often light to dark gray, trigonous, ovoid, usually ribbed with 3 ridges extending from base along angles to apex, 2–3 mm, glabrous, base trigonous, pointed, 6-porose with 2 yellowish, granulose pits on each somewhat concave side, apex mucronate;

hypogynium obsolete, reduced to minute brownish ring distal to pointed base.

Scleria georgiana
Phenology Fruiting spring–summer.
Habitat Wet, sandy, peaty soils in pinelands and savannas or moist, sandy waste areas, shallow standing water
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; West Indies (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica); Central America (Belize, Nicaragua)
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Discussion

The illegitimate name Scleria gracilis Elliott has been used for S. georgiana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 23, p. 245.
Parent taxa Cyperaceae > Scleria
Sibling taxa
S. baldwinii, S. ciliata, S. curtissii, S. distans, S. lacustris, S. lithosperma, S. minor, S. muehlenbergii, S. oligantha, S. pauciflora, S. reticularis, S. triglomerata, S. verticillata
Synonyms S. gracilis
Name authority Core: Brittonia 1: 243. (1934)
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