Scleria pauciflora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (Q3397)

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

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    taxon/id/Scleria pauciflora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
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    Scleria pauciflora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    Scleria pauciflora
    Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    few-flowered nutrush (English)
    papillose nutrush (English)
    sclérie pauciflore (French)
    Mexico
    West Indies (Cuba)
    rhizomes clustered, elongate, nodulose, to 5 mm thick, hard.
    Culms usually in tufts, slender, (15–) 20–50 cm, stiff, glabrous or hairy (villous or ciliate in some forms).
    Leaves: sheaths sometimes reddish, not or scarcely winged, weakly ribbed, short-pubescent or villous;
    contraligules obtuse to triangular, short;
    blades linear, channeled, obtuse, shorter than or equaling inflorescence, 1–2.5 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes scabrous on margins.
    clusters 2–10 mm wide, each with 1–7 spikelets;
    lateral clusters remote, on long filiform peduncles;
    bracts subtending inflorescence leaflike, long awl-shaped, often appearing to continuation of culm, glabrous or ciliate.
    Spikelets bisexual or staminate, 3–6 mm;
    staminate scales lanceolate, membranous, pistillate scales ovatelanceolate, acuminate.
    Achenes white or gray and/or with black markings, globose or rarely ovoid, 1–2.5 (–3) mm, base narrowly constricted, trigonous, apex umbonate, papillate-verrucose, proximal papillae elongate, retrorse, spiculose;
    hypogynium brownish, bluntly trigonous border, bearing 6 globose tubercles arranged in distinct pairs, usually finely powdery.