Rhynchospora divergens

Chapman ex M. A. Curtis

Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 7: 409. 1849.

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Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 220. Mentioned on page 203, 221.
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Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 10–60 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms erect or spreadingarching, linearfiliform, terete, leafy toward base. Leaves overtopped by culm; blades ascending, filiform, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, margins deeply involute, then channeled, apex trigonous, setaceous. Inflorescences: spikelet clusters 1–2 (–4), dense (–open), narrowly to broadly turbinate; branches capillary, variously elongate; leafy bracts setaceous, proximal exceeding clusters. Spikelets brownish, lanceellipsoid to fusiform, 2–2.5 (–3) mm, apex acute; fertile scales broadly elliptic, 1.5 mm, apex narrowly rounded to broadly acute, apiculate, convexcupulate, midrib narrow, shortexcurrent or included. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 1–3 or more per spikelet, (0.6–) 0.7–0.9 (–1) mm; body pale, glassy, obovoidlenticular, 0.6–0.7 × 0.4–0.5 mm, margins narrow, wirelike; surfaces finely striate, very finely reticulate; tubercle button depressedtriangular or patelliform, 0.1–0.15 mm, apiculate.


Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall or all year (south).
Habitat: Moist sands, peats, silts or clays of low meadows, bogs, flatwoods, sometimes seeps over calcareous rock
Elevation: 0–300 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex., West Indies (Bahamas), West Indies (Cuba), West Indies (Dominican Republic), Central America

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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"shortened" is not a number."wider" is not a number.

... more about "Rhynchospora divergens"
narrowly rounded;broadly acute +
Robert Kral +
Chapman ex M. A. Curtis +
2-lobed +  and lunate +
scabridulous +  and scabrid +
filiform +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
warty +, papillate +, alveolate +  and pitted +
ridged +, terete +, lenticular +  and flattened +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
setaceous +
elongate +  and capillary +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
spreadingarching +  and erect +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Tex. +, West Indies (Bahamas) +, West Indies (Cuba) +, West Indies (Dominican Republic) +  and Central America +
0–300 m +
distalmost +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Moist sands, peats, silts or clays of low meadows, bogs, flatwoods, sometimes seeps over calcareous rock +
racemose +, corymbose +  and paniculate +
erect +, rarely +  and spreading +
3-ranked +  and polystichous +
cauline +  and basal +
wirelike;channeled +
decurrent +
plumed +  and barbed +
deciduous +  and persistent +
shorter or longer +
of 2-12(-20) bristles +
Fruiting summer–fall or all year (south). +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
cylindric +
Illustrated +
lanceellipsoid;fusiform +
2 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
cleft +, 2-fid +  and undivided +
Dichromena +  and Psilocarya +
Rhynchospora divergens +
Rhynchospora +
species +
sulcate +  and 2-edged +
patelliform +  and button +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.015 cm0.15 mm <br />1.5e-4 m <br />) +
plant +  and cespitose +