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|accepted_name=Eleocharis nana
|accepted_authority=Kunth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 140. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chaetocyperus punctatus
|authority=Nees
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis camptotricha
|authority=(C. Wright) C. B. Clarke
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis punctata
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Scirpus camptotrichus
|authority=C. Wright
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae;Eleocharis nana
|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 nana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 61, 69, 71, 94, 96
|treatment_page=page 95
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>probably perennial, tufted; rhizomes present, ± horizontal, 0.3–0.5 mm thick, soft, longer internodes 5 mm, scales disintegrating, translucent or not. <b>Culms</b> erect to ascending, ± quadrangular to pentagonal or broadly elliptic, sometimes sulcate, (1.9–)4.2–8.6 cm (extraterritorial plants to 12 cm) × 0.2–0.4 mm, soft. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent or fugaceous, pale brown or red-brown sometimes spotted or streaked red-brown, translucent, membranous, apex acute. <b>Spikelets</b>: basal spikelets absent; never proliferous, ovoid, ellipsoid or obovoid, laterally compressed when young, but terete at maturity, 1.9–4 × 1–3 mm, apex acute, proximal scale empty, deciduous, amplexicaulous or nearly so, similar to floral scales, 0.6–2.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm, midrib sometimes slightly prolonged beyond lamina; subproximal scale with a flower; floral scales distichous or spirodistichous, (2–) 4–10, 3–5 per mm of rachilla, pale brown, spotted or streaked red-brown, ovate or elliptic, 1.7–2.2 × 0.4–0.7 mm, membranous, midrib green, spotted red-brown, prominent, apex rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6, red-brown, equaling to much exceeding tubercle; spinules sparse, retrorse, sharply acute; stamens 3; anthers 0.5–0.7 × 0.1 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> whitish or pale brown, circular in outline, ellipsoid, or obovoid, trigonous, angles prominent, 0.6–0.8 × 0.5–0.6(–0.7) mm, apex constricted proximal to tubercle, smooth. <b>Tubercles</b> white or red-brown, pyramidal, trigonous, 0.2–0.4 × 0.3–0.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–winter.
|habitat=Freshwater, moist terrestrial sites such as sandy and peaty ponds, cypress swamps
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;South America.
|discussion=<p>H. K. Svenson (1957) described <i>Eleocharis nana</i> as “annual (?),” but the presence of rhizomes suggests that this species may be perennial.</p>
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name=Eleocharis nana
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=Chaetocyperus punctatus;Eleocharis camptotricha;Eleocharis punctata;Scirpus camptotrichus
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–winter.
|habitat=Freshwater, moist terrestrial sites such as sandy and peaty ponds, cypress swamps
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_138.xml
|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Tenuissimae
|species=Eleocharis nana
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