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|accepted_name=Eleocharis albida
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York.
|place=3: 304. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Albidae;Eleocharis albida
|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. Albidae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis albida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 70, 97
|treatment_page=page 99
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes soft, longer internodes 2–4 cm, cortex loose, scales fugaceous, 6 mm, thinly membranous and translucent. <b>Culms</b> not rooting at tips, terete, 10–40 cm, soft to firm, smooth. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths proximally brownish or sometimes reddish, distally stramineous to green. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid to oblong-subcylindric, 4–12 × 2–3.5 mm, apex acute to rounded; proximal scale empty, clasping 1/2 of culm, like floral scales; subproximal 1 or 2 scales often empty; floral scales 20–100, 10 per mm of rachilla, entirely stramineous or sometimes red-brown, ovate, (1.5–)2–2.5 × 1.5 mm, apex broadly rounded, entire. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles (5–)6(–8), brown, stout, the longer equaling achene or tubercle, retrorsely spinulose; stamens 3; anthers brown, 1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> falling with scales, obovoid, angles keeled, 0.8–1 × 0.7–0.8 mm, apex with short neck. <b>Tubercles</b> whitish to brown, mammillate to pyramidal, 0.2–0.3 × 0.3–0.35 mm, 1/3 or less as wide as achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Coastal saltmarsh edges, sloughs, beaches, dune depressions, ditches
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.Mex.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Bermuda.
|discussion=<p>In most spikelets, the bright brown stigmas contrast strikingly with the stramineous floral scales. We have not seen vouchers for H. K. Svenson’s (1937) reports of <i>Eleocharis albida</i> from Virginia. The collections we have seen from Maryland are from the 1800s.</p>
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name=Eleocharis albida
|author=
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Coastal saltmarsh edges, sloughs, beaches, dune depressions, ditches
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.Mex.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Bermuda.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_145.xml
|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Albidae
|species=Eleocharis albida
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