New York Metropolitan Flora

Genus: Eleocharis

By Steven D. Glenn

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 04/08/2013

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Nomenclature

Eleocharis R. Brown, Prodr., 224. 1810.

List of Eleocharis Species

Eleocharis obtusa Eleocharis acicularis Eleocharis tenuis complex Eleocharis engelmannii Eleocharis equisetoides Eleocharis erythropoda Eleocharis fallax Eleocharis ambigens Eleocharis flavescens var. olivacea Eleocharis intermedia Eleocharis melanocarpa Eleocharis microcarpa Eleocharis ovata Eleocharis palustris Eleocharis parvula Eleocharis quadrangulata Eleocharis quinqueflora Eleocharis robbinsii Eleocharis rostellata Eleocharis tortilis Eleocharis tricostata Eleocharis tuberculosa Eleocharis uniglumis var. halophila Eleocharis wolfii Eleocharis aestuum Eleocharis diandra

References to Eleocharis

  • Britton, Nathaniel L. 1888. New or noteworthy North American phanerogams. I. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 97-104.
  • Brownell, V. R. et.al. 1996. Recent discoveries of southern vascular plants at their northern limits in the granite barrens area of Lennox and Addington County, Ontario. Canad. Field-Naturalist 110: 255-259.
  • Catling, P. M. et.al. 2010. A reconsideration of the taxonomic status of Eleocharis tuberculosa var. pubnicoensis (Cyperaceae). Rhodora 112: 22-33.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1899. Eleocharis ovata and its American allies. Proc. American Acad. Arts 34: 485-497.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1929. The representatives of Eleocharis palustris in North America. Rhodora 31: 57-77.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America. Volume 23. Cyperaceae. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. , 608 pages. (ISBN 0195152077)
  • Haines, A. 2001. Eleocharis aestuum (Cyperaceae), a new tidal river shore spikesedge of the eastern United States. Novon 11: 45-49.
  • Harms, L. J. 1972. Cytotaxonomy of the Eleocharis tenuis complex. Amer. J. Bot. 59: 483-487.
  • Harms, L. J. 1972. Chromosomally aberrant progeny of selfed trisomic Eleocharis erythropoda Steud. Cytologia 37: 235-243.
  • Hicks, G. C. 1929. Cytological studies in Cyperus, Eleocharis, Dulichium, and Eriophorum. Bot. Gaz. 88: 132-149.
  • Hinchliff, C. E.; Roalson, E. H. 2009. Stem architecture in Eleocharis subgenus Limnchloa (Cyperaceae): evidence of dynamic morphological evolution in a group of pantropical sedges. Amer. J. Bot. 96: 1487-1499.
  • Moyle, J. B. 1945. Some chemical factors influencing the distribution of aquatic plants in Minnesota. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 34: 402-420.
  • Naczi, R. F. C. et.al. 2002. Native flowering plant species new or otherwise significant in Kentucky. Sida 20: 397-402.
  • Roalson, E. H. 2008. A synopsis of chromosome number variation in the Cyperaceae. Bot. Rev. 74: 209-393.
  • Roalson, E. H. et.al. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae): C4 photosynthesis origins and patterns of diversification in the spikerushes. Syst. Bot. 35: 257-271.
  • Roalson, E. H.; Friar, E. A. 2000. Infrageneric classification of Eleocharis (Cyperaceae) revisited: evidence from internal stranscribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Syst. Bot. 25: 323-336.
  • Svenson, H. K. 1932. Monographic studies in the genus Eleocharis - II. Rhodora 34: 192 - 203, 215 - 227.