7 Rvnchospora Vahl. 
Tufted perennial rush-like herbs with short rootstocks. 
Leaves slender, flat. Spikelets slender, spindleshaped, clustered at the 
apex of the stems. Bracts then, l-veined, imbricate. Perianth of several 
slender barbed bristles. Stamens 3. Style 2-branched at the apex. Achene 
lenticular, conspicuously capped by the conical persistent base of the style. 
1. Re alba (Le) Vahl. Pale green erect tufted horbs with snore slender 
rootstocks, the culms 15-40 om. tall, columnar, striate, smoothg very 
slender and pliant; leaves linear, 1-2 mn. wideymostly shorter than the culms; 
spikelets in terminal clusters, commonly with 1-2 lateral ones, buff-colored 
or tan, becoming nearly white, 3-4 mm. long, spindle-shaped, very acute, shining, 
bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute; bristles several, downwardly barbed, 
about as long as the mature fruit; achene obovate, smooth, brown; tubercle 
about half as long as the achene. 
Muddy ground near Wallace, Epling. 
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