Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (Q3396)

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Scleria verticillata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scleria
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Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
Scleria verticillata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scleria

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    taxon/id/Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
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    Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    Scleria verticillata
    Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    sclérie verticillée (French)
    low nutrush (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    West Indies (Bahamas)
    West Indies (Cuba)
    peaty soils
    marshes
    savannas
    moist meadows
    wet pinelands
    lakeshores
    roots reddish, fibrous.
    Culms solitary or in tufts, erect, slender, (7–) 10–60 cm, glabrous.
    Leaves: sheaths green or streaked with purple, smooth or weakly ribbed, usually narrowly winged, long-villous;
    contraligules minute;
    blades linear or filiform, plane or keeled, shorter than culms, 0.5–2 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences terminal, glomerate-spicate, 2.5–13 cm;
    glomerules 2–9, erect, brown, compact, 3–7 mm wide, each with 5–12 (–15) spikelets;
    proximal glomerules occasionally on short, erect peduncles;
    bracts subtending inflorescence bristlelike, minutely ciliate or glabrous, inconspicuous.
    Spikelets bisexual, alternate, often appearing cyclic or whorled, 2–3 (–4) mm;
    scales oblong-lanceolate.
    Achenes whitish or often gray or brownish or with dark interangular markings, trigonous-globose, 1–1.5 (–1.9) mm, base trigonous, stipelike, short, narrowly constricted, and somewhat pitted or ribbed, apex distinctly mucronate, surface transversely tuberculate with quadrate ridges;
    hypogynium obsolete, represented by narrow brownish ridge at base of achene.