Scleria lithosperma (L.) Sw.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Perennial by rather short rootstocks, the culms often clustered, slender, weak, glabrous, 2-6 dm. long. Leaves 0.5-3 mm. wide, the upper elongated, the lowest reduced to pubescent or puberulent sheaths; panicles 1-3, distant, glabrous, small, stalked or the upper sessile; bracts filiform, glabrous; achene obovoid-ellipsoid, white, smooth, shining, about 2 mm. long, its base trigonous; hypogynium none.
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Distribution
Coppices and scrub-lauds, Abaco, Great Bahama, Berry Islands and Andros to Mariguana and Inagua : Florida; West Indies; continental tropical America; Old AVorld tropics. Slender Nit-hush.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Berry Islands Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|