Cyperaceae taxon details
Eleocharis cellulosa Torr.
1491859 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1491859)
accepted
Species
Scirpus cellulosus (Torr.) Kuntze · unaccepted
Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright · unaccepted
Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House · unaccepted
terrestrial
Not documented
Description Plants perennial; rhizomes 1–4 mm thick, soft to hard, longer internodes 3–7.5 cm, scales 5 mm, tubers absent. Culms...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 1836 to Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist....
Description Plants perennial; rhizomes 1–4 mm thick, soft to hard, longer internodes 3–7.5 cm, scales 5 mm, tubers absent. Culms terete or obtusely trigonous, 30–80 cm × 1–5 mm, soft to hard, not septate-nodulose, internally spongy, transverse septa incomplete; plants never forming filiform, flaccid culms. Leaves: distal leaf sheaths persistent, membranous, apex acute to acuminate, often prolonged into a slender awn to 4 mm. Spikelets not proliferous, 14–54 × 3–5.6 mm; rachilla joints without winglike remnants of floral scales; proximal scale empty, amplexicaulous, 2.5–4.9 mm; floral scales 40–180, 2–3 per mm of rachilla, stramineous to pale brown, flanks sometimes minutely dotted reddish, usually with pale to dark brown, reddish, or purplish submarginal band, obovate to suborbicular, widest in middle, 3.4–4.5(–6) × 3–4.8 mm, cartilaginous, membranous toward margins, margins broadly translucent, membranous, apex rounded. Flowers: perianth bristles 6–7, medium brown to pale brown or reddish, slender, proximally slightly flattened, subequal to unequal, mostly exceeding achene, 2–3.4 mm, smooth or sometimes finely retrorsely spinulose; anthers reddish brown, 1.7–2.5 mm; styles 3-fid. Achenes brown, biconvex, obpyriform, 2.2–2.8 × 1.3–1.9 mm, markedly sculptured at 10–15X, each face with (17–)20–24 rows of isodiametric to slightly transversely elongated cells, apex narrowed to a stout, often pale, spongy region 0.8–1.1 mm wide at base, 1/2–3/4 of achene width. Tubercles dark brown, lamelliform to pyramidal, 0.1–0.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 1836 to Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 1836 to Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 (1836), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Eleocharis cellulosa Torr.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1491859 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
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Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description Plants perennial; rhizomes 1–4 mm thick, soft to hard, longer internodes 3–7.5 cm, scales 5 mm, tubers absent. Culms terete or obtusely trigonous, 30–80 cm × 1–5 mm, soft to hard, not septate-nodulose, internally spongy, transverse septa incomplete; plants never forming filiform, flaccid culms. Leaves: distal leaf sheaths persistent, membranous, apex acute to acuminate, often prolonged into a slender awn to 4 mm. Spikelets not proliferous, 14–54 × 3–5.6 mm; rachilla joints without winglike remnants of floral scales; proximal scale empty, amplexicaulous, 2.5–4.9 mm; floral scales 40–180, 2–3 per mm of rachilla, stramineous to pale brown, flanks sometimes minutely dotted reddish, usually with pale to dark brown, reddish, or purplish submarginal band, obovate to suborbicular, widest in middle, 3.4–4.5(–6) × 3–4.8 mm, cartilaginous, membranous toward margins, margins broadly translucent, membranous, apex rounded. Flowers: perianth bristles 6–7, medium brown to pale brown or reddish, slender, proximally slightly flattened, subequal to unequal, mostly exceeding achene, 2–3.4 mm, smooth or sometimes finely retrorsely spinulose; anthers reddish brown, 1.7–2.5 mm; styles 3-fid. Achenes brown, biconvex, obpyriform, 2.2–2.8 × 1.3–1.9 mm, markedly sculptured at 10–15X, each face with (17–)20–24 rows of isodiametric to slightly transversely elongated cells, apex narrowed to a stout, often pale, spongy region 0.8–1.1 mm wide at base, 1/2–3/4 of achene width. Tubercles dark brown, lamelliform to pyramidal, 0.1–0.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 1836 to Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 298 (1836), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | round-stemmed spike rush | [details] |
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (105 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis cellulosa)
To GenBank (74 nucleotides; 192 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus cellulosus (Torr.) Kuntze)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus cellulosus (Torr.) Kuntze)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eleocharis cellulosa K000307755 type 1)
To US Herbarium (Scirpus dictyospermus US96125 type 1) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (105 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis cellulosa)
To GenBank (74 nucleotides; 192 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus cellulosus (Torr.) Kuntze)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus cellulosus (Torr.) Kuntze)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trichophyllum cellulosum (Torr.) House)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eleocharis cellulosa K000307755 type 1)
To US Herbarium (Scirpus dictyospermus US96125 type 1) (from synonym Scirpus dictyospermus C.Wright)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Hosted externally, from synonym
