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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Elatine minima
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) Fischer & C. A. Meyer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=10: 73. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|common_names=Small waterwort;élatine naine
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Crypta minima
|authority=Nuttall
|publication_title=J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication_place=1: 117, plate 6, fig. 1. 1817
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Elatinaceae;Elatine;Elatine minima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Elatinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Elatine]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Elatine minima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 350
|treatment_page=page 353
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> submersed or emersed on wet substrates, 0.2–3(–10) cm. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, usually unbranched, sometimes 1–2 branched. <b>Leaves</b> green; stipules lanceolate, 0.2 mm, margins entire, apex rounded; petiole 0–1 mm; blade elliptic to oblanceolate or spatulate, 0.3–5(–11) × 0.7–1.8(–4) mm, base rounded to truncate, apex obtuse-acute. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–0.2 mm, erect. <b>Flowers</b> cleistogamous when submersed; sepals 2, equal, ovate to oblong, 0.5 × 0.3 mm; petals 2, reddish, long-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, 1–1.5 × 0.5 mm; stamens 2; styles 2. <b>Capsules</b> oblong-ovoid, 2-locular, 0.9–1.5 mm diam. <b>Seeds</b> 4–9 per locule, thickly cylindric to barrel-shaped, straight, 0.4–0.5(–0.7) × 0.2(–0.3) mm; pits elliptic, length 1.2–1.6 times width, in 8–9 rows, (11–)15–20 per row.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Shores (sometimes intertidal) or in water to 2 m deep, sandy substrates mixed with organic debris, abandoned sunfish nests.
|elevation=0–400 m.
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
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name=Elatine minima
|author=
|authority=(Nuttall) Fischer & C. A. Meyer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Crypta minima
|family=Elatinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Shores (sometimes intertidal) or in water to 2 m deep, sandy substrates mixed with organic debris, abandoned sunfish nests.
|elevation=0–400 m.
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1835
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Elatine
|species=Elatine minima
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