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Safeguarding the Rare Plants of the Sunshine State
Rhynchospora megaplumosa
Rhynchospora megaplumosa inflorescence
An achene of Rhynchospora megaplumosa is ready to fall, held on only by a few strands of spider web. […]
Achene of Rhynchospora megaplumosa
The tiny, ridged achenes of Rhynchospora megaplumosa (Cyperaceae) are dwarfed by the plumose bristles that give this species its name. The expansion of the bristles as they mature pushes the achene out from between the scales of the spikelet. […]
Seed collection of Rhynchospora megaplumosa (Cyperaceae)
Summer interns, Bethany Burns and Abigail Steinwachs, brave the Florida scrub in July to help with collection of seed from the endangered sedge, Rhynchospora megaplumosa. Seeds were collected for ex situ seed banking as part of the Florida Rare Plants Initiative. […]
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