Eleocharis rostellata (Torrey) Torrey (Q3303)

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Eleocharis rostellata is a taxon with the rank species within the series Eleocharis ser. Rostellatae
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Eleocharis rostellata (Torrey) Torrey
Eleocharis rostellata is a taxon with the rank species within the series Eleocharis ser. Rostellatae

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    taxon/id/Eleocharis rostellata (Torrey) Torrey
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    Eleocharis rostellata (Torrey) Torrey
    Eleocharis rostellata
    (Torrey) Torrey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eleocharis rostellata
    éléocharide à petit bec (French)
    beaked spikerush (English)
    walking sedge (English)
    Beaked spike-rush (English)
    walking sedge (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    1 reference
    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/
    1 reference
    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Mexico
    West Indies (Cuba)
    West Indies (Haiti)
    West Indies (Puerto Rico)
    wet calcareous
    brackish fens
    springs
    Plants densely tufted, mat-forming by means of rooting culm tips.
    Culms 1.5–3 times as wide as thick, 20–100 cm × 0.35–2 mm, firm to hard, wiry, with to 8 subacute ribs, rarely nearly smooth;
    some culms arching or decumbent and rooting at tips.
    Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths not splitting abaxially, proximally dark red to brown, apex usually reddish.
    Spikelets ovoid, 5–17 × 2.5–5 mm, apex acute;
    spikelets on stolons rudimentary, nonflowering, proliferous when rooting;
    proximal scale empty, amplexicaulous, ovate, 2–4 mm;
    floral scales 20–40, 2–3 per mm of rachilla, stramineous to medium brown, midrib region paler, ovate, 3.5–6 × 2–3 mm, membranous to cartilaginous, apex entire, rounded to subacute.
    Flowers: perianth bristles brown, equaling achene or tubercle, densely spinulose;
    anthers brown, 2–2.4 mm.
    Achenes often very variable within one plant, ovoid to obovoid or obpyriform, 1.5–2.5 × 1–1.2 mm, beak to 1 × 0.6 mm.
    Tubercles when present pale to dark-brown, pyramidal, to 0.5 × 0.3 mm.