Rhynchospora alba (Linnaeus) Vahl (Q3443)

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Rhynchospora alba is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Rhynchospora
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Rhynchospora alba (Linnaeus) Vahl
Rhynchospora alba is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Rhynchospora

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    taxon/id/Rhynchospora alba (Linnaeus) Vahl
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    Rhynchospora alba (Linnaeus) Vahl
    Rhynchospora alba
    (Linnaeus) Vahl
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    rhynchospore blanc (French)
    rhynchospora blanc (French)
    white beakrush (English)
    white beaksedge (English)
    Rhynchospore blanc (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Catling, P.M., D.S. Erskine & R.B. MacLaren. 1985. The Plants of Prince Edward Island with new records, nomenclatural changes, and corrections and deletions. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Ottawa. Publication 1798. 272 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Labrador, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
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    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    Fla.(?)
    West Indies (Puerto Rico)
    South America(?)
    Eurasia
    sphagnous
    open sites
    poor fens
    floating mats
    peaty interstices
    rocky shores
    0–2000 m
    Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 6–75 cm;
    rhizomes mostly absent.
    Culms erect to curved, leafy, obscurely trigonous to nearly terete, few ribbed, slender.
    blades narrowly linear to filiform, proximally flat, 0.5–1.5 mm, apex tapering, trigonous.
    Inflorescences: clusters 1 or 2–3, then widely spaced, narrowly turbinate to hemispheric, 1.5–2.5 cm wide;
    subtending leafy bracts often exceeded by distal cluster.
    Spikelets pale-brown to nearly white, ellipsoid, 3.5–5.5 mm, apex acute;
    fertile scales elliptic, 3–3.5 (–4) mm, apex acute or acuminate, midrib excurrent as mucro.
    Flowers: perianth bristles 10–12, slightly overtopping tubercle, retrorsely barbellate or rarely smooth, base often setose.
    Fruits 1 (–2) per spikelet, (2.3–) 2.5–3 mm;
    body pale-brown with paler center, stipitateobovoid, lenticular, 1.5–1.8 (–2) × 0.9–1.2 mm;
    tubercle narrowly triangularsubulate, 0.5–1.2 mm.