Cyperaceae taxon details
Rhynchospora curtissii Britton
1679554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1679554)
accepted
Species
Phaeocephalum curtissii (Britton) House · unaccepted
Rhynchospora filifolia var. ellipsoidea Kük. · unaccepted
terrestrial
Small, J. K. (1903). Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/376878
page(s): 195 [details]
page(s): 195 [details]
Description Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 10–30 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms lax, erect to excurved, leafy toward base,...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from Britton to Britton in Small, information provided by Alan E....
Description Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 10–30 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms lax, erect to excurved, leafy toward base, filiform. Leaves overtopped by scape; blades filiform, distally flattened, channeled, tapering, to 1 mm wide, margins strongly involute, apex blunt. Inflorescences: spikelet clusters 1–3, laterals widely spaced, all narrowly turbinate, ellipsoid, or ovoid; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping proximal clusters, often overtopped by terminal ones. Spikelets erect or ascending, redbrown, lanciform, mostly 4.5–5 mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, (3–)4–4.5 mm, apex acute, apiculate. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 2–3(–5) per spikelet; stipe and receptacle 0.1–0.2(–0.3) mm, setose; body brown with pale glassy center, narrowly obovoidellipsoid, lenticular, 1.2–1.5 mm, margins narrow, flowing to tubercle; surfaces very finely lined longitudinally, transversely with wavy lines of tiny pits; tubercle narrowly triangular or slightly concavesided, flattened, 0.7–1.2(–1.5) mm. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from Britton to Britton in Small, information provided by Alan E....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from Britton to Britton in Small, information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Rhynchospora curtissii Britton. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1679554 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
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Small, J. K. (1903). Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/376878
page(s): 195 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 195 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Description Plants perennial, densely cespitose, 10–30 cm; rhizomes absent. Culms lax, erect to excurved, leafy toward base, filiform. Leaves overtopped by scape; blades filiform, distally flattened, channeled, tapering, to 1 mm wide, margins strongly involute, apex blunt. Inflorescences: spikelet clusters 1–3, laterals widely spaced, all narrowly turbinate, ellipsoid, or ovoid; leafy bracts setaceous, overtopping proximal clusters, often overtopped by terminal ones. Spikelets erect or ascending, redbrown, lanciform, mostly 4.5–5 mm, apex acute; fertile scales lanceolate, (3–)4–4.5 mm, apex acute, apiculate. Flowers: perianth absent. Fruits 2–3(–5) per spikelet; stipe and receptacle 0.1–0.2(–0.3) mm, setose; body brown with pale glassy center, narrowly obovoidellipsoid, lenticular, 1.2–1.5 mm, margins narrow, flowing to tubercle; surfaces very finely lined longitudinally, transversely with wavy lines of tiny pits; tubercle narrowly triangular or slightly concavesided, flattened, 0.7–1.2(–1.5) mm. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from Britton to Britton in Small, information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Phaeocephalum curtissii (Britton) House)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Rhynchospora filifolia var. ellipsoidea Kük.)
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Rhynchospora_curtissii_NY51379_type_1)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Phaeocephalum curtissii (Britton) House)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Rhynchospora filifolia var. ellipsoidea Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Rhynchospora curtissii US314423 type 1)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Phaeocephalum curtissii (Britton) House)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Rhynchospora filifolia var. ellipsoidea Kük.)
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Rhynchospora_curtissii_NY51379_type_1)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Phaeocephalum curtissii (Britton) House)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Rhynchospora filifolia var. ellipsoidea Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Rhynchospora curtissii US314423 type 1)
From editor or global species database
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