Eleocharis lanceolata

Fernald

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 34: 493, figs. 27–29. 1899.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 104. Mentioned on page 64, 105.

Culms 20–35 cm × 0.3–1 mm. Leaves: apex of distal leaf-sheath subacute to narrowly acute, tooth to 0.3 (–1.1) mm. Spikelets narrowly lanceoloid, 3–12 × (1–) 2–2.5 (–4) mm, apex acute; floral scales 25–100, 10–12 per mm of rachilla, orangebrown to stramineous, ovate, 1.5–2 × 1 mm, midribs mostly keeled, apex acute or narrowly rounded in proximal part of spikelet. Flowers: perianth bristles 6–7, brown, stout, the longest equaling or exceeding tubercle; stamens 2–3; anthers brown, 0.3 mm; styles 2-fid. Achenes 0.9–1.1 × 0.6–0.8 mm. Tubercles deltoid, 0.25–0.5 × 0.5–0.7 mm, 1/2–2/3 as high as wide, 1/4–1/2 as high and 2/3–4/5 as wide as achene. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Fruiting summer to fall.
Habitat: Fresh shores, stream beds, pine woods, disturbed places
Elevation: 0–400 m

Distribution

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Ark., Calif., Kans., La., Mo., Okla., Tenn., Tex.

Discussion

Some collections of Eleocharis lanceolata from Tennessee appear to be intermediate with E. obtusa. The California record is an introduced rice-field weed collected in 1949.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number.

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dark-brown +  and stramineous +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br />) +
biconvex +
wide;0.6mm;0.8mm +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (?) +
rounded;acute;acute;subacute;narrowly acute +
not constricted +
S. Galen Smith* +, Jeremy J. Bruhl* +, M. Socorro González-Elizondo* +  and Francis J. Menapace* +
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flattened +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
persistent +
enlarged +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
0.3mm;1mm +
green +  and stramineous +
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0–400 m +
orangebrown +  and stramineous +
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1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Fresh shores, stream beds, pine woods, disturbed places +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
flattened +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
exceeding tubercle +  and equaling +
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Fruiting summer to fall. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
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Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
ascending +  and horizontal +
caudex-like +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
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0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
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lanceoloid +
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2 +  and 3 +
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compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
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species +
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0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
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1/2 (?) +  and 2/3 (?) +
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