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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eleocharis minima
|accepted_authority=Kunth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 139. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chaetocyperus jamesonii
|authority=Steudel
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chaetocyperus polymorphus
|authority=Lindley & Nees
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chaetocyperus viviparus
|authority=Nees
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis durandii
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis jamesonii
|authority=(Steudel) N. E. Brown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis minima var. ambigua
|authority=Kükenthal
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis oropuchensis
|authority=Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis savannarum
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis subtilis
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis tenuissima
|authority=Maury
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis villaricensis
|authority=Boeckeler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis wrightiana
|authority=Steudel
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Isolepis ambigua
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae;Eleocharis minima
|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 minima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 71, 98
|treatment_page=page 97
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, tufted, often mat-forming, often stoloniferous, sometimes entirely vegetative; rhizomes absent. <b>Culms</b> erect, ascending or arching, quadrangular, sulcate, 1–13 cm × 0.1–0.3 mm, soft. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent or disintegrating, red-brown, stramineous, green, or mottled red-brown, translucent, apex narrowly acute. <b>Spikelets</b>: basal spikelets often present, bisexual; often proliferous, ovoid or ellipsoid, laterally compressed when young, but terete at maturity, 2–7 × 1–2.6 mm, acute; proximal scale empty, often persistent, amplexicaulous, similar to floral scales; subproximal scale with a flower; floral scales spirodistichous (superficially appearing ± spiraled), (4–)10–28, 6–9 per mm of rachilla, pale brown, mottled red-brown to purple, ovate or elliptic, 1.3–2.1 × 0.7–1 mm, membranous, midribs green and red-brown, prominent, apex rounded to obtuse. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, colorless, white, or stramineous, slightly shorter than to equaling achene, spinules retrorse, acute; stamens 3; anthers 0.4–0.5 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> greenish or pale brown or red-brown, often clearly spotted greenish or red-brown, ellipsoid to obovoid, trigonous (or terete?), angles prominent (keeled), 0.6–0.8 × 0.4–0.5 mm, apex constricted proximal to tubercle, smooth. <b>Tubercles</b> red-brown, pyramidal, trigonous, 0.1–0.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid spring–fall.
|habitat=Freshwater, sandy and peaty shores of lakes, muddy areas
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Fla.;Md.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Costa Rica;El Salvador;Guatemala;Nicaragua;Panama);South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis minima</i> is most often confused with <i>E. bicolor</i> and <i>E. baldwinii</i> (see comments under 33. <i>E. bicolor</i>). Although floral scales in <i>E. minima</i> often superficially appear to be spirally disposed, in reality they are spirodistichous, ± decussate, while in <i>E. baldwinii</i> they are strictly distichous in one plane. The number of floral scales per millimeter is much greater in <i>E. minima</i> than in <i>E. baldwinii</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eleocharis minima
|author=
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=Chaetocyperus jamesonii;Chaetocyperus polymorphus;Chaetocyperus viviparus;Eleocharis durandii;Eleocharis jamesonii;Eleocharis minima var. ambigua;Eleocharis oropuchensis;Eleocharis savannarum;Eleocharis subtilis;Eleocharis tenuissima;Eleocharis villaricensis;Eleocharis wrightiana;Isolepis ambigua
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid spring–fall.
|habitat=Freshwater, sandy and peaty shores of lakes, muddy areas
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Fla.;Md.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Costa Rica;El Salvador;Guatemala;Nicaragua;Panama);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae
|species=Eleocharis minima
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