Rhynchospora eximia Boeckeler

Florida beaksedge (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Rhynchospora

Characteristics

Plants perennial or annual, single or cespitose, (10–)20–50 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms spreading to erect, leafy, obtusely triangular. Leaves often exceeding inflorescences; blades narrowly linear, proximally flat, 1–3 mm wide, apex trigonous, tapering. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, clusters of 1–5 corymbs; leafy bracts much exceeding corymbs. Spikelets few to several, on ascending, stiff, short-to-elongate branches, red-brown to brown, lanceoloid, (5–)6–10 mm, apex acuminate; fertile scales many, ovate, shallowly convex, 5 mm, apex acuminate; midrib short-excurrent or not. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 1.5 mm; body dark brown to black, tumidly lenticular, nearly orbicular, 0.8–0.9 × 0.6–0.7 mm, margins grooved, discontinuous with tubercle; surfaces transversely wavy rugose, ridges of contiguous rows of vertical, linear, raised cells; tubercle broad, low triangular, 0.2–0.3 mm, crustaceous, base capping fruit summit, raised at ends, apex short acuminate.
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Glabrous annual; culms slender, 1-4 dm. high; leaves often exceeding the culms, 1-3 mm. wide; corymbs spreading, the long-pedicelled spikelets relatively few, 7-10 mm. long, dark brown; achenes suborbicular, yellow-brown, 1.5 mm. long, transversely rugose, the two flattened lateral lobes of the style-base decurrent on the apex of the achene; bristles none.
Brown spikelets on long but rather robust pedicels
Leafy annual
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.45
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Marshes and wet flushes.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Rhynchospora eximia world distribution map, present in Benin, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guatemala, Honduras, Mali, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Panama, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Rhynchospora eximia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:312154-1
WFO ID wfo-0000516410
COL ID 4ST3S
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Chaetospora ferruginea Dichromena schiedeana Rhynchospora elegans Rhynchospora grosserugosa Rhynchospora psilocaryoides Rhynchospora schroederi Rhynchospora eximia Psilocarya schiedeana Rhynchospora oxycephala Spermodon eximius Psilocarya eximia Rhynchospora testui var. pleiantha Rhynchospora eximia var. multiflorens