Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa (Palisot de Beauvois ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey (Q3324)

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Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa is a taxon with the rank subgenus within the genus Eleocharis
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Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa (Palisot de Beauvois ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey
Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa is a taxon with the rank subgenus within the genus Eleocharis

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    taxon/id/Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa (P. Beauvais ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey
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    Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa (P. Beauvais ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey
    Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa
    (P. Beauvais ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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    Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa
    (P. Beauvais ex T. Lestiboudois) Torrey
    Tropical
    subtropical (and warm temperate) areas worldwide
    Plants perennial, when submerged sometimes with spikelets proliferating.
    Rhizomes present, creeping, sometimes with apical tubers.
    Culms 16–115 cm × 0.5–8.5 mm, spongy with transverse septa incomplete or often hollow with complete transverse septa.
    Spikelets cylindric to narrowly ellipsoid, terete, often as wide as their culms, (6–) 9–75 mm;
    proximal scale empty or rarely subtending a flower;
    floral scales ca. 4–220 per spikelet, spiraled, 3–8 mm, with 15 or more prominent to obscure, close, longitudinal veins, papery to cartilaginous.
    Styles 3-fid, or 3-fid and 2-fid.
    Achenes biconvex, sometimes compressed trigonous, sometimes distally constricted into a distinct, thick neck, 1.4–3 mm, markedly (to obscurely) sculptured, each face usually with 10–40 longitudinal rows of enlarged cells, sometimes nearly smooth.
    Tubercles distinct from achenes in color, texture and form, or sometimes merging with achene apex, often dorsoventrally greatly compressed.