Rhynchospora macrostachya Torrey ex A. Gray (Q3447)

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Rhynchospora macrostachya is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Rhynchospora
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Rhynchospora macrostachya Torrey ex A. Gray
Rhynchospora macrostachya is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Rhynchospora

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    taxon/id/Rhynchospora macrostachya Torrey ex A. Gray
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    Rhynchospora macrostachya Torrey ex A. Gray
    Rhynchospora macrostachya
    Torrey ex A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Rhynchospora macrostachya
    rhynchospore à gros épillets (French)
    tall beakrush (English)
    tall horned beakrush (English)
    tall horned beaksedge (English)
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    E.C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD), Acadia University, NS. Specimen. http://herbarium.acadiau.ca/
    acidic sunny wetlands
    pond shores
    marshlands
    Plants perennial, cespitose, 80–150 (–170) cm, coarse;
    Culms stiffly erect, leafy, triangular, multiribbed.
    Leaves ascending, overtopped by inflorescence;
    blades flat proximally, 3–10 (–15) mm wide, apex attenuate, trigonous.
    Inflorescences terminal and axillary, narrow, clusters of corymbs, clusters dense, mostly broadly turbinate, 13–15 mm;
    Spikelets brown, lanceoloid, 13–15 mm, apex acuminate;
    fertile scales lanceolate, 10–13 mm, apex acuminate, midrib shortexcurrent.
    Flowers: longer perianth bristles usually fully 2 times length of fruit body, antrorsely barbellate.
    Fruits 1–2 per spikelet, 20–25 mm;
    body pyriformobovoid, compressed, 5–6 × 2.6–3.6 mm;