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wide.
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basal 35, linear, the sheaths not seen, the blades 1221 ( 45) ×
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, glaucous green above and below, flattened, midrib evident.
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a series of 36 corymbose inflorescences, each subtended by a leaf-like bract, the bracts at each more distal node diminishing in size; basal bract with sheath
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long, the blade linear, 614 ×
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; inflorescences increasing in size and number of spikelets distally, each one of 39 spikelets, the primary axis 3070 ×
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, the basal branches longest, 1026 ×
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, with 23 spikelets, the shorter distal branches forming a terminal cluster of 24 spikelets.
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dark brown, (measurements for those without maturing achenes distorting shape) lenticular, ellipsoid, 46.4 ×
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, comprising 2030 glumes, the basal 3 glumes smaller, sterile, the fertile glumes ca. 2.6 ×
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, more or less distichous, carinate, cucullate, the apex acute, mucronate.
<underline id="779108007FF71BE1CBBA4003713E3D19">Hypogynous bristles</underline>
0.62.0 mm long, half as long as to slightly exceeding the achene, densely short-plumose on the distal two thirds, sparsely so on the basal third.
<underline id="B5F2F5F8A2FDD1F84EF47DE8B8D57F07">Nutlet</underline>
circular to very broadly obovate in outline, deeply lenticular, 1.61.8 ×
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, the surface golden tan and very lightly rugulose to tuberculate, the summit slightly arched; persistent style base triangular, 0.40.5 ×
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, the surface dull grey and irregularly textured.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0E5VAG" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8FF2B71208D17A31A41D7B30AB802412">
<heading id="F0ACE5B4BCAAE7938344254D4540E43D" reason="title">Distribution and habitat.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA6B878985372518877FD65986C4C193">
Known from a single collection on the Serra do Bogodó, a
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high hill with low, open deciduous seasonal tropical forest (
<bibRefCitation id="B7E2AB706842FC6DE6389253C383D5DB" author="Thomas and Barbosa" editor="Thomas WW" firstAuthor="Thomas" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden" pagination="6-20" refId="B34" refString="Thomas WW, Barbosa MRV (2008) Natural vegetation types in the Brazilian Atlantic coastal forest north of the Rio Doce. In: Thomas WW (Ed.) The Atlantic Coastal Forest of Northeastern Brazil. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 100: 620." title="Natural vegetation types in the Brazilian Atlantic coastal forest north of the Rio Doce." volume="100" volumeTitle="The Atlantic Coastal Forest of Northeastern Brazil." year="2008">Thomas and Barbosa 2008</bibRefCitation>
) surrounded by lower, ca
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elevation, flat, deforested land converted into pasture (Fig.
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). The Serra is on the state line separating the municipalities of Salto da Divisa in
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and Itajimirim in
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EMWAG" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="7513FDECD7ADA8CC7D0F6B7618A64983">
<heading id="CCA185A1430005EC2F84D480C3F01249" reason="title">Etymology.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="27478154E3036BC93A5F89388BEDA94F">
The specific epithet comes from the Greek “ eremos ” meaning solitary and often is used in specific epithets to describe desert environments. Here, it describes the dry forest habitat, and that this species is known only from the
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collection.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0ERWAG" type="Preliminary IUCN conservation assessment">
<paragraph id="6A7343313BCC72B6C09D978456F6C42B">
<heading id="F9F0AAB89ECFAF103446E8B565C466F1" reason="title">
Preliminary
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conservation assessment.
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F92D20D31C8890B516DA3F092983B4E7">
Two subsequent trips to the only known locality revealed no additional plants. Since the original collection, cattle were permitted to enter and graze, probably affecting the diversity of plants in the herbaceous layer of the forest.
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<emphasis id="9096402E3BFF58E6206BD664E6700245" italics="true">Rhynchospora eremica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is sympatric with
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<emphasis id="91D20D31E17C791967ADAC4558C60B3F" italics="true">R. hamadryadis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
described above but has never been collected at other localities where the latter species occurs (Fig.
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). It was collected at a single unprotected locality that has since been altered, and has never been collected anywhere else, but we hope that additional exploration may reveal it in other locations. In addition, the deciduous seasonal tropical forest, is the most exploited and sensitive
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of Atlantic Forest. Since
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<emphasis id="DC2DA3FAC1637E509101C7436785B6BA" italics="true">R. eremica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only known from a single location and since we infer a decline in the area, extent and / or quality of the habitat as a result of grazing, the species is assessed as Critically Endangered:
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2 ab (iii).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0E3XAG" type="Taxonomic notes">
<paragraph id="8F6002EF588AE09E58187F8904FFF919">
<heading id="36651B77536201015FED497E85994E55" reason="title">Taxonomic notes.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="43A338DC5014D52C780BEB39155D72B6">
<taxonomicName id="883EA3FFED1416AA76ED6FA34F92EC1F" authorityName="W. W. Thomas" authorityYear="2024" class="Liliopsida" family="Cyperaceae" genus="Rhynchospora" kingdom="Plantae" order="Poales" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="eremica">
<emphasis id="58FF3D29AB800A03CAD85F14C01B0267" italics="true">Rhynchospora eremica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is one of the smallest species in section
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<emphasis id="46E1F5F5FFF363C81E19CE0A2B479593" italics="true">Pleurostachys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with culms only reaching
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long. Of the smaller species with basal or mostly basal leaves, it is unique in having short, broad leaf blades (1221 ×
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) and occurring in dry forests. See key to the species of
<emphasis id="2552737552D7C9CC59243F10FE553F1C" italics="true">
<collectionCode id="C2A23F94ED300281A497C8A761CC6F84" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile">R</collectionCode>
. sect.
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</emphasis>
below.
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