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|accepted_name=Eleocharis bicolor
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=517. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae;Eleocharis bicolor
|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. Tenuissimae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis bicolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 63, 94, 98
|treatment_page=page 96
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>probably perennial, tufted, not stoloniferous; rhizomes present, ± horizontal, 0.2–0.4 mm thick, firm, longer internodes 3–7 mm, scales translucent or not. <b>Culms</b> often ascending, often spotted or streaked red-brown, cross section quadrangular or broadly elliptic, often sulcate, 1.5–8(–25) cm × 0.1–0.3 mm, soft. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent or fugaceous, closely sheathing, not conspicuously wrinkled, colorless or pale brown, sometimes spotted red-brown, delicately membranous, apex narrowly acute. <b>Spikelets</b>: basal spikelets absent; never proliferous, ovoid or ellipsoid, laterally compressed or terete, 1.5–3.7 × 0.8–3 mm, apex acute; proximal scale empty, persistent, amplexicaulous, similar to floral scales; subproximal scale with a flower; floral scales distichous (spirodistichous), 8–22, 6–10 per mm of rachilla, colorless or pale brown, mottled red-brown to purple, ovate, (1–)2 × 1 mm, membranous, midribs green and red-brown, prominent, apex rounded to obtuse. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles present or absent, (1–)4, colorless to white, vestigial to shorter than achene, 0–0.55 mm; spinules not evident at 45X; stamens (1–)3; anthers 0.35–0.45 mm; styles 2-fid (or 3-fid). <b>Achenes</b> whitish to pale brown, obovoid, biconvex, rarely trigonous, angles prominent, 0.5–0.8 × 0.4–0.6 mm, apex slightly constricted proximal to tubercle, smooth. <b>Tubercles</b> sessile, green or red-brown, pyramidal, birettaform or umbonate, 0.15–0.25 × 0.3–0.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–late fall.
|habitat=Moist banks, freshwater, damp pine barrens
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;West Indies;Central America (Nicaragua).
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>The culms of <i>Eleocharis bicolor</i> sometimes have complete transverse septa which are prominent when plants are aquatic.</p>
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name=Eleocharis bicolor
|author=
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–late fall.
|habitat=Moist banks, freshwater, damp pine barrens
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;West Indies;Central America (Nicaragua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_139.xml
|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae
|species=Eleocharis bicolor
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