Rhynchospora globularis var. saxicola

(Small) Kükenthal

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 75: 159. 1950.

IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Rhynchospora saxicola Small Man. S.E. Fl., 185, 1503. 1933 (as Rynchospora)
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23.
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Plants mostly (10–) 20–40 cm. Culms stiff, slender. Spikelets broadly ovoid. Flowers: perianth bristles reaching at least to tubercle base, often slightly beyond tip. Fruit body distinctly transversely wavyrugose, with intervals of fine or coarse rectangular alveolae; tubercle depressedconic or patelliform, nearly covering apex of truncate summit of fruit body, apex apiculate.


Phenology: Fruiting spring–fall.
Habitat: Depressions on and around sandy (usually granite) outcrops
Elevation: 0–300 m

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Lower Taxa

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rectangular +
obtuse;rounded or emarginate +
Robert Kral +
(Small) Kükenthal +
2-lobed +  and lunate +
Rhynchospora saxicola +
scabridulous +  and scabrid +
v--shaped +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
warty +, papillate +, alveolate +  and pitted +
biconvex +
ascending +  and appressed +
setaceous +
erect +  and ascending +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
wiry +  and leafy +
excurved +
slender +
Ala. +, Ga. +  and S.C. +
0–300 m +
distalmost +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Depressions on and around sandy (usually granite) outcrops +
racemose +, corymbose +  and paniculate +
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 spring–fall. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
broadly ovate;orbiculate +
0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
cylindric +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
mostly dark-brown +  and brown +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
2 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
cleft +, 2-fid +  and undivided +
wavyrugose +
Dichromena +  and Psilocarya +
Rhynchospora globularis var. saxicola +
Rhynchospora globularis +
variety +
sulcate +  and 2-edged +
flattened +, terete +, triangular +  and conic +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +