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Eleocharis yunnanensis Svenson

  • Rhodora 41: 559 (1939) 

  • This name is reported by Cyperaceae as an accepted name in the genus Eleocharis (family Cyperaceae).

    The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2022-04-18) which reports it as an accepted name

Eleocharis yunnanensis Svenson
  • Rhodora 41: 559 (1939) 


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Eleocharis yunnanensis Svenson. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000406401. Accessed on: 30 Nov 2023'

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Perennials. Rhizomes thick, decumbent to obliquely ascending. Culms laxly to densely tufted, 16-40 cm tall, ca. 1 mm thick, terete, longitudinally sulcate. Leaf sheaths 3, basalmost glumelike; cauline sheaths 2, tubular, 2-8 cm, basally purplish red to purple, apically green, mouth slightly obliquely truncate. Spikelet narrowly oblong to oblong, 6-8 × 2-3 mm, few flowered. Basal 2 glumes opposite, 1/2 or more as long as spikelet; basalmost glume usually proliferous but without a flower and next one both proliferous and with a flower; fertile glumes blood-red, spirally imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 1.3 mm, midvein conspicuous to obscure, margin pale blood-red and broadly hyaline, apex acute. Perianth bristles 6, pale rust-colored, as long as nutlet, densely retrorsely shortly spinulose. Stigmas 3. Nutlet yellowish green, obovoid, 1.2-1.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm, obtusely 3-sided, sides slightly convex, apex constricted, ± narrow, and as wide as base of style; persistent style base pale, narrowly 3-angled to conic, ca. 1/2 as long as nutlet, apex attenuate to a short caudal tip. Fl. and fr. Apr-Aug.

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    Flora of China @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    Perennials. Rhizomes thick, decumbent to obliquely ascending. Culms laxly to densely tufted, 16-40 cm tall, ca. 1 mm thick, terete, longitudinally sulcate. Leaf sheaths 3, basalmost glumelike; cauline sheaths 2, tubular, 2-8 cm, basally purplish red to purple, apically green, mouth slightly obliquely truncate. Spikelet narrowly oblong to oblong, 6-8 × 2-3 mm, few flowered. Basal 2 glumes opposite, 1/2 or more as long as spikelet; basalmost glume usually proliferous but without a flower and next one both proliferous and with a flower; fertile glumes blood-red, spirally imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 1.3 mm, midvein conspicuous to obscure, margin pale blood-red and broadly hyaline, apex acute. Perianth bristles 6, pale rust-colored, as long as nutlet, densely retrorsely shortly spinulose. Stigmas 3. Nutlet yellowish green, obovoid, 1.2-1.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm, obtusely 3-sided, sides slightly convex, apex constricted, ± narrow, and as wide as base of style; persistent style base pale, narrowly 3-angled to conic, ca. 1/2 as long as nutlet, apex attenuate to a short caudal tip. Fl. and fr. Apr-Aug.

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    Cyperaceae
    https://powo.science.kew.org/
    World Flora Online Data. 2022.
    • A CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
    • B Missouri Botanical Garden
    Vahliaceae
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/Vahliaceae
    World Flora Online Data. 2021.
    • C CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).