Rhynchospora californica

Gale

Rhodora 46: 272. plate 834, figs. 1A, B. 1944.

IllustratedEndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 223. Mentioned on page 204, 222.
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Plants perennial, cespitose, to 100 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms arching, slender, leafy. Leaves exceeded by culm; blades elongate linear, proximally flat, 2–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, subulate. Inflorescences terminal and lateral, clusters 2–3, loosely turbinate, clusters, capillary pedunculate; distal foliaceous bracts mostly exceeded by inflorescences. Spikelets few per cluster, brown, broadly ovoid, 4 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales oblongovate, 3 mm, midrib forming small awn. Flowers: perianth bristles 6, exceeding tubercle tip, antrorsely barbellate. Fruits mostly 2 per spikelet, 3 mm; body pale yellowbrown, pyriformobovoid, lenticular, 2 × 1.4 mm; surfaces transversely wavyrugulose, vertically striatealveolate between ridges; tubercle subulatetriangular, 1 mm.


Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall.
Habitat: Marshes, bogs, seeps
Elevation: 500–1000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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

... more about "Rhynchospora californica"
acuminate;ovoid;subulate;trigonous +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (?) +
Robert Kral +
small +
2-lobed +  and lunate +
scabridulous +  and scabrid +
elongate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
pale yellowbrown +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
warty +, papillate +, alveolate +  and pitted +
lenticular +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (?) +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
trigonous +
slender +
500–1000 m +
distalmost +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Marshes, bogs, seeps +
capillary +  and turbinate +
erect +, rarely +  and spreading +
3-ranked +  and polystichous +
cauline +  and basal +
keeled;terete;keeled;terete +
revolute +  and involute +
decurrent +
plumed +  and barbed +
deciduous +  and persistent +
shorter or longer +
of 2-12(-20) bristles +
Fruiting summer–fall. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
cylindric +
Illustrated +, Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
2 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
cleft +, 2-fid +  and undivided +
wavyrugulose +
Dichromena +  and Psilocarya +
Rhynchospora californica +
Rhynchospora +
species +
sulcate +  and 2-edged +
flattened +, terete +, triangular +  and conic +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
plant +  and cespitose +