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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eleocharis bifida
|accepted_authority=S. G. Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=11: 243, figs. 1F–J, 2. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis;Eleocharis bifida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eleocharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>series</small>[[Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis bifida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 67, 83, 84, 86
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose; rhizomes concealed by persistent culm bases, short, 4–5 mm thick, hard, cortex persistent, internodes crowded, scales decaying to coarse fibers, 1 cm, papery. <b>Culms</b> greatly compressed, 4–10 times wider than thick, often with 1 or 2 sharp ridges on 1 side, (8–)20–35 cm × 0.7–2.3 mm, hard, finely striate, spongy. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent, not splitting, proximally red or stramineous, distally green to stramineous, inflated, papery, apex dark brown, broadly obtuse to subtruncate, callose, tooth absent. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid, 4–9 × 2.5–4 mm, apex acute; proximal scale clasping 2/3–3/4 of culm, apex 2-fid; subproximal scale empty or with a flower; floral scales spreading in fruit, 30–60, 6–9 per mm of rachilla, medium or pale brown, midrib region often paler, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5 mm, apex 2-fid, carinate in distal part of spikelet. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 0(–5), stramineous to pale brown, 1/2 of to equaling achene length; stamens 3; anthers orange-brown, 0.7–1.5 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> falling with scales, yellow-brown to medium brown, obovoid to obpyriform, nearly equilaterally trigonous, cross section circular to slightly compressed, angles obscure or evident, 0.9–1.1 × 0.6–0.75, neck usually very short, finely rugulose at 10–30X, 20 or more low, blunt horizontal ridges in vertical series. <b>Tubercles</b> brown, depressed-pyramidal, often rudimentary, 0.1–0.25 × 0.2–0.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Seasonally wet places on limestone, cedar (juniper) glades, stream beds, prairies, ditches
|elevation=200–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis bifida</i> was previously included in <i>E. compressa</i>. A very few specimens of <i>E. compressa </i>var.<i> compressa</i> from the states where <i>E. bifida</i> is known are like <i>E. bifida</i> except for their entire proximal floral scales and evident rhizomes.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eleocharis bifida
|author=
|authority=S. G. Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (May–Jun).
|habitat=Seasonally wet places on limestone, cedar (juniper) glades, stream beds, prairies, ditches
|elevation=200–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis
|species=Eleocharis bifida
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