View source for Eleocharis occulta

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eleocharis occulta
|accepted_authority=S. G. Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=11: 247, figs. 2, 3E–K. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis;Eleocharis occulta
|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 occulta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 67, 84, 86
|treatment_page=page 83
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose; rhizomes concealed by persistent dead culm bases, often ascending, short, 3–5 mm thick, hard, cortex persistent, internodes very short, scales decaying to coarse fibers, 5–12 mm, papery. <b>Culms</b> subterete to slightly compressed, less than 2 times wider than thick, with 4–7 blunt ridges when dry, 27–56 cm × 0.2–0.5(–0.7) mm, firm to hard, spongy. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent, not splitting, proximally red, distally green to stramineous, often inflated, thinly papery to membranous, sometimes translucent, apex broadly obtuse to subtruncate, often callose, tooth absent. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid, 3–10 × 2–3 mm, apex acute; proximal scale amplexicaulous, apex 2-fid; subproximal scale with a flower; floral scales spreading in fruit, 20–50, 7 per mm of rachilla, medium brown, midrib region often narrowly stramineous, carinate, lanceolate-attenuate, 2–2.8 × 1 mm, apex 2-fid. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 3 or absent, stramineous to pale brown, rudimentary to 1/2 achene length, obscurely retrorsely spinulose; stamens 3; anthers orange-brown, 0.7–1.3 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> falling with scales, medium or dark brown, obpyriform, nearly equilaterally obscurely trigonous or cross section nearly circular, 0.7–1 × 0.5–0.65 mm, neck distinct or rarely absent, obscurely rugulose at 10–30X, 30 or more low, blunt horizontal ridges in vertical series. <b>Tubercles</b> brown, depressed-pyramidal, often rudimentary, 0.1–0.15 × 0.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring (Mar–May), sometimes summer (Jul).
|habitat=Seasonally wet, calcareous seeps, depressions, swales, rock crevises, rocky stream beds, stream banks, wet meadows, pond margins, often on limestone
|elevation=80–300 m
|distribution=Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis occulta</i> is very invariable in contrast to the extreme variability of <i>E. compressa</i>.</p>
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name=Eleocharis occulta
|authority=S. G. Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring (Mar–May), sometimes summer (Jul).
|habitat=Seasonally wet, calcareous seeps, depressions, swales, rock crevises, rocky stream beds, stream banks, wet meadows, pond margins, often on limestone
|elevation=80–300 m
|distribution=Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2001
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_112.xml
|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Eleocharis
|species=Eleocharis occulta
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