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  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
  • Families
Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Liliopsida

Cyperaceae

Eleocharis

  • Eleocharis philippinensis
  • Eleocharis equisetina
  • Eleocharis sphacelata
  • E. minuta minutaE. minuta
  • Eleocharis macbarronii
  • e. pusilla
  • Eleocharis atricha
  • Eleocharis gracilis
  • Eleocharis dietrichiana
  • Eleocharis parvula
  • Eleocharis pachycarpa
  • Eleocharis acuta
  • Eleocharis plana
  • Eleocharis pallens
  • Eleocharis cylindrostachys

Eleocharis R.Br.

Spike Rushes

30 species in Aust. (10 endemic); all states and territories

Annual or perennial herbs, frequently producing slender stolons or sometimes with tubers or descending or ascending rhizomes. Leaves reduced to sheathing scales. Spikelets solitary, terminal, erect, without bracts, few–many-flowered. Glumes spirally imbricate, rarely ± distichous. Flowers bisexual. Perianth up to 10 bristles or absent. Stamens 1–3. Style 2–3-fid. Nut surmounted by the persistent dilated stylar base. (Fig. 46).