Flora of North America species comparison

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Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus
Habit 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.

Eleocharis sect. Eleogenus
Distribution
Worldwide; primarily New World temperate regions
Discussion

Species 18 (9 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Cyperaceae > Eleocharis
Subordinate taxa
Name authority (Nees) Bentham: in G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker, Gen. Pl. 3: 1047. (1883)
Source FNA vol. 23. Treatment authors: S. Galen Smith*, Jeremy J. Bruhl*, M. Socorro González-Elizondo*, Francis J. Menapace*.
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