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Rhynchospora pleiantha

Rhynchospora pleiantha (Kük.) Gale  
Family: Cyperaceae
Coastal Beak Sedge
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Robert Kral in Flora of North America (vol. 23)
Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 10-40(-53) cm; rhizomes stoloniferous, slender. Culms erect to excurved, leafy based, filiform. Leaves shorter than culm; blades ascending to excurved, filiform, proximally to 1 mm wide, margins involute, apex trigonous, subulate, tapering. Inflorescences: spikelet clusters 1-3, laterals 0-2, turbinate, rarely hemispheric; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping inflorescence. Spikelets red brown, narrowly lanceoloid, 5-7 mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, 3.5-5 mm, apex acute, mucronate. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 2(-5) per spikelet, (1.7-)2-2.2 mm; body on short, setulose receptacular stipe, brown with pale center, obovoid lenticular, 0.8-1.1 mm, surfaces very finely longitudinally lined, sometimes faintly reticulate cancellate; tubercle triangular subulate, 0.7-0.9 mm, base lunate, edges setulose.

Fruiting late spring-fall. Sands and peats of pond shores and moist pine savannas, particularly in karst districts; 0-200 m; Ala., Fla., Ga., N.C.; West Indies (Cuba).
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