Eleocharis macrostachya Britton in J. K. Small (Q3293)

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Eleocharis macrostachya is a taxon with the rank species within the series Eleocharis ser. Eleocharis
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Eleocharis macrostachya Britton in J. K. Small
Eleocharis macrostachya is a taxon with the rank species within the series Eleocharis ser. Eleocharis

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    taxon/id/Eleocharis macrostachya Britton
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    Eleocharis macrostachya Britton
    Eleocharis macrostachya
    Britton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eleocharis macrostachya
    éléocharide à gros épi (French)
    long-headed spikerush (English)
    pale spikerush (English)
    Éléocharide à gros épi (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
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    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1023&flora_id=1
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    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
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    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1023&flora_id=1
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    Bennett, B., P.M. Catling, W.J. Cody & G.W. Argus. 2010. New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory VIII. Canadian Field Naturalist 124 (1): 1-27. http://canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1025
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    Herbarium, University of Michigan (MICH). Specimen. http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/
    Mexico
    South America (Argentina)
    South America (Colombia)
    South America (Uruguay)
    fresh to brackish
    fresh to alkaline shores
    stream beds
    swales
    vernal pools
    pastures
    ditches
    artificial ponds
    Plants perennial, mat-forming;
    rhizomes evident, long, 1–2 mm thick, firm, cortex persistent, longer internodes 10–55 mm, scales often fugaceous, 5–10 mm, membranous, not fibrous.
    Culms terete to markedly compressed, to 3 times wider than thick, often with to 25 blunt ridges when dry, 10–100 cm × 0.5–2.5 (–3.5) mm, firm (to soft), internally spongy.
    Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths persistent, rarely splitting abaxially, proximally mostly red, distally green (or red), papery (to membranous), apex truncate to obtuse, tooth sometimes present on some or all culms, 0.1–0.6 (–1) mm.
    Spikelets narrowly lanceoloid to ovoid, 5–40 × 2–5 mm, acute, rarely obtuse;
    proximal scale clasping (2/3–) 3/4 or more of culm to amplexicaulous, usually variably in same plant;
    subproximal scale empty or with flower, usually empty in some spikelets and with flower in other spikelets in same plant;
    floral scales deciduous, often spreading in fruit, 30–80, 3–5 per mm of rachilla, medium brown, sometimes redbrown or dark chestnut-brown, midrib regions often stramineous to green, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, entire, mostly carinate in distal part of spikelet.
    Flowers: perianth bristles 4 (–5), sometimes rudimentary or absent, brown, slender to stout, much shorter than achene to equaling tubercle;
    anthers dark yellow to orangebrown, 1.3–2.7 mm;
    Achenes not persistent, yellow maturing to yellowbrown or dark-brown, ellipsoid, obovoid, or obpyriform, biconvex to planoconvex, angles obscure, 1.1–1.9 × 0.8–1.5 mm, apex rounded, neck absent or short, smooth at 30X, or finely rugulose at 10–20X with 20 or more horizontal ridges in a vertical series.
    Tubercles brown to whitish, pyramidal, as high as or sometimes much higher than wide, 0.35–0.7 × 0.25–0.7 mm. 2n = 18, 19, 38.