Eleocharis capitata R.Br.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eleocharis capitata R.Br.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Annual; roots fibrxms; culms densely tufted, nearly terete, almost filiform, 5-25 cm. tall. Upper sheath 1-toothed; spikelet ovoid, obtuse, much thicker than the culm, 3-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. thick, many-flowered; scales broadly ovate, obtuse, firm, pale or dark brown with a greenish midvein, narrowly searious-margined, persistent; stamens mostly 2; style 2-cleft; bristles 5-8, slender, downwardly hispid, as long as the achene; achene obovate, jet black, smooth, shining, nearly 1 mm. long; tubercle depressed, apiculate, constricted at the base, very much shorter than the aehene.

  • Distribution

    Moist and wet grounds, Great Bahama, and Andros to Crooked Island, North Caicos and Inagua : United States ; Bermuda ; West Indies ; tropical continental America ; Old World tropics. Capitate Spike-rush.

    South Andros Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|