Cyperaceae taxon details
Eleocharis cancellata S.Watson
1681039 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1681039)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Not documented
Description Plants annual(?), densely cespitose; rhizomes obscured among culm bases, delicate, internodes very short, scales not...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts xviii. (1882-83) 170. to Proc. Amer. Acad....
Description Plants annual(?), densely cespitose; rhizomes obscured among culm bases, delicate, internodes very short, scales not evident. Culms mostly ascending, terete or 4-angled, 2 cm × 0.2–0.3 mm, soft. Leaves: distal leaf sheaths persistent, greenish to whitish, translucent, membranous, apex blunt. Spikelets ovoid, 2–3 × 1 mm, apex acute; floral scales 7–10, 5 per mm of rachilla, bright brown or colorless, medially greenish, ovate to lanceolate, not folded lengthwise, 0.8–1.2(–1.5) × 0.6–0.8 mm, midrib obscure to slightly keeled, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers: perianth bristles absent; anthers orange-brown, 0.2–0.3 mm. Achenes brownish, broadly ovoid to obpyriform, much less than 2 times longer than wide, with angles plus longitudinal ridges ca. 6, rather obscure, 0.5–0.55 × 0.35 mm, apex blunt, trabeculae 15–20, distinct. Tubercles grayish or brownish, often appressed, mostly pyramidal, 0.1 × 0.1 mm. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts xviii. (1882-83) 170. to Proc. Amer. Acad....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts xviii. (1882-83) 170. to Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 18: 170 (1883), 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 cancellata S.Watson. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1681039 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Description Plants annual(?), densely cespitose; rhizomes obscured among culm bases, delicate, internodes very short, scales not evident. Culms mostly ascending, terete or 4-angled, 2 cm × 0.2–0.3 mm, soft. Leaves: distal leaf sheaths persistent, greenish to whitish, translucent, membranous, apex blunt. Spikelets ovoid, 2–3 × 1 mm, apex acute; floral scales 7–10, 5 per mm of rachilla, bright brown or colorless, medially greenish, ovate to lanceolate, not folded lengthwise, 0.8–1.2(–1.5) × 0.6–0.8 mm, midrib obscure to slightly keeled, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers: perianth bristles absent; anthers orange-brown, 0.2–0.3 mm. Achenes brownish, broadly ovoid to obpyriform, much less than 2 times longer than wide, with angles plus longitudinal ridges ca. 6, rather obscure, 0.5–0.55 × 0.35 mm, apex blunt, trabeculae 15–20, distinct. Tubercles grayish or brownish, often appressed, mostly pyramidal, 0.1 × 0.1 mm. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts xviii. (1882-83) 170. to Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 18: 170 (1883), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis cancellata)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eleocharis cancellata K000632275 type 1)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis cancellata)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eleocharis cancellata K000632275 type 1)
From editor or global species database
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