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  • Inland is a barren coastal savanna with, in wetter areas, sedge prairie Rhynchospora spp.,

    Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras 2008

  • These areas are dominated by sedges and grasses such as Cyperus giganteus, Eleocharis geniculata, Rhynchospora trispicata, Hymenachne spp.,

    Beni savanna 2008

  • Several occurrences of the federally-listed threatened plant, Knieskern's beaked-rush (Rhynchospora knieskernii), have also been documented within the Reserve boundaries, as well as the sensitive joint-vetch (Aeschynome), Seabeach Amaranth (Amaranthus pumulis), and American chaffseed (Schwalbea americana), all federally-listed as threatened plants.

    Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007

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