View source for Eleocharis nitida

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eleocharis nitida
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=8: 129. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Neat spike-rush;éléocharide brillante
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis;Eleocharis nitida
|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 nitida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 68, 87
|treatment_page=page 86
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming; rhizomes evident, 0.3–0.5 mm thick, hard, cortex persistent, longer internodes 2 mm, scales persistent or fugaceous, 2–3 mm, membranous to papery, slightly fibrous. <b>Culms</b> terete, 2–15 cm × 0.15–0.3 mm, firm to soft. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent, not splitting, proximally stramineous to reddish, distally green or stramineous to reddish, membranous, apex often red, obtuse to acute, tooth absent. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid, 1–4 × 1–2 mm, obtuse to acute; proximal scale amplexicaulous, apex entire; subproximal scale with flower; floral scales spreading in fruit, 5–30, 8 per mm of rachilla, medium to very dark brown, midrib region often pale or greenish, broadly ovate, 1–1.3 × 1 mm, apex rounded, entire, not carinate. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles absent; stamens 3; anthers yellow, 0.3 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> persistent after scales fall, to dark yellow-orange or brown, broadly obpyriform, trigonous, angles evident, 0.6–0.65 × 0.5–0.55 mm, rugulose at 20–30X, 20 blunt horizontal ridges in each vertical series. <b>Tubercles</b> brown, greatly depressed, rudimentary, 0.05–15 × 0.15–0.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring (Jun)–summer.
|habitat=Fresh bog pools, streams, disturbed places
|elevation=30–400 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis nitida</i> is much like <i>E. elliptica</i> but all structures are smaller; intermediates are unknown.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eleocharis nitida
|author=
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring (Jun)–summer.
|habitat=Fresh bog pools, streams, disturbed places
|elevation=30–400 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1906
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_118.xml
|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis
|species=Eleocharis nitida
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