Eleocharis parvula
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Description
Dwarf perennial, densely tufted, forming mats, and propagating by small, fusiform, brown or purplish, 3-6 mm long tubers at the end of filiform stolons.
Stamens 3;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Atlantic coast of Europe north to Norway present, Atlantic coast of North America from New Foundland to the West Indies present, Bangil, S of Surabaya present, Cochinchina present, E. Java present, Japan present, Kiushiu present, Mediterranean coast of Europe present, N. Africa present, Pacific coast from N. California to British Columbia present, South America present, Southern America
Along the Atlantic coast of North America from New Foundland to the West Indies and the Pacific coast from N. California to British Columbia, rarely inland; in South America in Brazil; Mediterranean coast of Europe and N. Africa, Atlantic coast of Europe north to Norway, rarely inland; Japan (Kiushiu); Cochinchina, once collected; in Malesia: E. Java (Bangil, S of Surabaya).
Notes
Often treated as a species of Scirpus. As the style-base, though small and confluent with the nut, clearly differs in texture from the latter, it stands more naturally in Eleocharis (see p. 523). According to SVENSON, it may perhaps be considered the most primitive member of ser. Pauciflorae.
Citation
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 460
SVENS. 1929: p. 168. – In: Rhodora: t. 189, f. 18
KOYAMA 1961 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Un. Tokyo: 87
BOECK. 1869–1870 – In: Linnaea: 477
BLUFF, NEES & SCHAUER 1960 – In: Blumea: 643
KERN 1956 – In: Reinw.: 94
OHWI 1944 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B: 34