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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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Species
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RYNCHOSPORA GLOBOSA (HBK.) R. & S.
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Syst. 2:89. 1817.
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Description
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Glabrous, culms 3-9 dm. high, in small dense tufts; leaves basal, 15-50 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, stiff and rigid, brown and indurate below; heads globose, 1-2 cm. in diameter; one of the bracts longer than the head, the others shorter; spike- lets brownish, a single achene maturing in each; scales rigid, obtuse; achene bicon- vex, truncate, dark brown, the white narrow beak half as long as the achene; bristles 5, upwardly barbed, almost plumose.
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Distribution
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Dry hillsides; Mexico and the West Indies to Bolivia.
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Specimen
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COCLE: between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Wroodson, Allen & Seibert I284. PANAMA: Taboga Island, ca. 0-186 m., Woodson, Allen d Seibert I476.
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