Cyperaceae taxon details
Eleocharis dulcis (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch.
1681073 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1681073)
accepted
Species
Carex tuberosa Blanco · unaccepted
Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill. · unaccepted
Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama · unaccepted
Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl · unaccepted
Eleocharis esculenta Vieill. · unaccepted
Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce · unaccepted
Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult. · unaccepted
Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler · unaccepted
Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang · unaccepted
Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight · unaccepted
Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin · unaccepted
Eleocharis tuberosa Schult. · unaccepted
Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult. · unaccepted
Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees · unaccepted
Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees · unaccepted
Scirpus dubius Roxb. · unaccepted
Scirpus plantagineus Retz. · unaccepted
Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb. · unaccepted
Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth · unaccepted
Scirpus tuberosus Roxb. · unaccepted
Scirpus tumidus Roxb. · unaccepted
recent only
Not documented
Description Perennials. Stolons slender, often terminated by a tuber. Culms erect, grayish green, tufted, 15-60 cm tall, 1.5-3 mm...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. to Hensch., information provided...
Description Perennials. Stolons slender, often terminated by a tuber. Culms erect, grayish green, tufted, 15-60 cm tall, 1.5-3 mm thick, cylindric, smooth, glabrous, surface with transverse septa, nodes evident when dry. Leaf sheaths 2 or 3, greenish yellow, purplish red, or brown, 2-20 cm, mouth obliquely truncate, apex acute. Spikelet pale green, cylindric, 1.5-4 cm × 6-7 mm, many flowered. Basal 2 glumes empty, amplexicaul for whole spikelet base; fertile glumes grayish green, laxly imbricate, broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-5 × 2.5-3.5(-4) mm, subleathery, pale brown puncticulate and finely striate, margin pale yellow and membranous, apex obtuse. Perianth bristles 7, ca. 1.5 × as long as nutlet, retrorsely spinulose. Stigmas 3. Nutlet brown when mature, broadly obovoid, ca. 2.5 × 1.8 mm, biconvex, essentially smooth but faintly and finely cancellate with hexagonal to oblong hexagonal epidermal cells, apex not constricted but with an annular thickening; persistent style base triangular-attenuate, flattened, not spongy, base ca. 1/2 as wide as nutlet. Fl. and fr. May-Oct. 2n = 38, ca. 108. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. to Hensch., information provided...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. to Hensch., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The P [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Eleocharis dulcis (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1681073 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.) Rottbøll, C.F. (1786). Scirpus. <em>In: Descriptiones et icones rariorum et pro maxima parte novarum plantarum.</em> Cap. V, pp. 44-60. Havniae : Impensis Gyldendalii, Universit. Bibliopolae, & Lipsiae: apud Proftium in Commissis.
page(s): 45 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 45 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Other
additional source
Li, B. Z.; Zhang, S. R. (2024). An updated species checklist and taxonomic synopsis of Cyperaceae in China. <em>Biodiversity Science.</em> 32(7): 24106., available online at https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2024106 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Description Perennials. Stolons slender, often terminated by a tuber. Culms erect, grayish green, tufted, 15-60 cm tall, 1.5-3 mm thick, cylindric, smooth, glabrous, surface with transverse septa, nodes evident when dry. Leaf sheaths 2 or 3, greenish yellow, purplish red, or brown, 2-20 cm, mouth obliquely truncate, apex acute. Spikelet pale green, cylindric, 1.5-4 cm × 6-7 mm, many flowered. Basal 2 glumes empty, amplexicaul for whole spikelet base; fertile glumes grayish green, laxly imbricate, broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-5 × 2.5-3.5(-4) mm, subleathery, pale brown puncticulate and finely striate, margin pale yellow and membranous, apex obtuse. Perianth bristles 7, ca. 1.5 × as long as nutlet, retrorsely spinulose. Stigmas 3. Nutlet brown when mature, broadly obovoid, ca. 2.5 × 1.8 mm, biconvex, essentially smooth but faintly and finely cancellate with hexagonal to oblong hexagonal epidermal cells, apex not constricted but with an annular thickening; persistent style base triangular-attenuate, flattened, not spongy, base ca. 1/2 as wide as nutlet. Fl. and fr. May-Oct. 2n = 38, ca. 108. [details]New combination Combination in Eleocharis made in Henschel (1883), Vita Rumphii p. 186 [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. to Hensch., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The P [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (107 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis tuberosa Schult.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (151 publications) (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis dulcis)
To GenBank (170 nucleotides; 329 proteins)
To GenBank (170 nucleotides; 329 proteins) (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis tuberosa Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis tuberosa Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Eleocharis dulcis BM000959047 type 1)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (151 publications) (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleocharis dulcis)
To GenBank (170 nucleotides; 329 proteins)
To GenBank (170 nucleotides; 329 proteins) (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis tuberosa Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis esculenta Vieill.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis indica (Lour.) Druce)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis tuberosa Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis tumida (Roxb.) Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tuberosa Blanco)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus tumidus Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Limnochloa tumida (Roxb.) Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus dubius Roxb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus plantagineus Retz.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Eleocharis dulcis BM000959047 type 1)
From editor or global species database
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