Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus (Nees) Bentham in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker (Q3307)

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Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus is a taxon with the rank section within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
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Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus (Nees) Bentham in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker
Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus is a taxon with the rank section within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis

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    taxon/id/Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus (Nees) Bentham
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    Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus (Nees) Bentham
    Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus
    (Nees) Bentham
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus
    Worldwide
    primarily New World temperate regions
    Plants annual or perennial, never stoloniferous, sometimes with creeping rhizomes 0.5–1 mm thick, tubers absent.
    Culms terete, to 90 cm × 2 mm.
    Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths usually persistent, thinly membranous to papery.
    Spikelets terete, to 13 × 4 mm.
    Flowers: styles 2-fid or with to ca. 1/2 3-fid.
    Achenes biconvex or rarely to ca. 1/2 trigonous;
    angles keeled (costate), at least distally.
    Tubercles distinct from achene apex in color, texture, and form.