Eleocharis atropurpurea
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Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Central Java present, Central Sumatra present, Europe present: Italy (Italy present); Switzerland (Switzerland present), Japan present, Luzon present, Madura present, S. and E. Asia present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), U.S.A present, W. Java present, W. and N. Australia present, near Port Moresby present, the tropics of both the Old and New World present
Scattered through the tropics of both the Old and New World, also in the U.S.A., and in Europe in Italy and Switzerland; in S. and E. Asia to China, Formosa, and Japan, in Australia in W. and N. Australia, and Queensland, in Malesia very rare: Central Sumatra, W. Java, Madura, Philippines (Luzon), New Guinea (near Port Moresby). The record 'Central Java' in Backer, 1949 l.c., is based on a young specimen of E. geniculata.
Notes
Usually readily distinguishable from the more common E. geniculata by its smaller size. From small specimens of the latter it may be distinguished by the smaller nuts, the much more delicate bristles which are glistening white and translucent, and by the more prominently keeled glumes giving the spikelet an angular appearance.
Citation
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 120
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 627
KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 151
PRESL 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 6-9
S. T. BLAKE 1939: p. 125. – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: t. 10, f. 32-33
PRESL 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 90
SVENS. 1929: p. 227. – In: Rhodora: t. 191, f. 49
GAY 1842 – In: Flora: 641
BOECK. 1870 – In: Linnaea: 458
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 154: t. 158
KOYAMA 1961 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Un. Tokyo: 94
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 119
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 461
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 13
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 296