Scleria stevensiana Britton
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Authority
Contributions from The New York Botanical Garden: Volume X 1921-1923.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial? rootstocks short or none; culms very slender, tufted, slightly scabrous above, weak, 4-5 dm. long. Leaves soft, scabrous-margined, 4 mm. wide or less, panicles 2 or 3, axillary, the lower stalked, the upper one nearly sessile, about 3 cm. long; bracts narrowly linear-subulate, 2.5 cm. long or less; spikelets several or numerous; achene depressed-globose, about 1.5 mm. in diameter, apiculate, glabrous, shining, faintly reticulated, nearly white, with 3 vertical brown bands; hypogynium lobes lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous.