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|accepted_name=Lachnocaulon engleri
|accepted_authority=Ruhland in H. G. A. Engler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler,Das Pflanzenreich
|place=13[IV,30]: 241. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Eriocaulaceae;Lachnocaulon;Lachnocaulon engleri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Eriocaulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lachnocaulon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lachnocaulon engleri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> short-lived perennial, solitary or cespitose, forming low domes of rosettes, 6–15 cm. <b>Leaves</b> mostly linear-triangular, 2–4 cm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths shorter than or as long as principal leaves; scapes filiform, distally 0.4 mm thick, 4–5-ribbed, glabrous; mature heads dark brown or reddish brown, nearly globose, usually short cylindric by seeding time, 3–4 mm; receptacle densely pilose; involucral bracts soon reflexed, brown, mostly ovate, 1(–1.5) mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or apex sparsely pilose, hairs translucent, club-shaped; receptacular bracts, dark brown, broadly spatulate or obovate-cuneate, concave, with broad, low, pale keel, 1–1.5 mm, apex short-acuminate, glabrous or abaxial surface with translucent, club-shaped hairs distally. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 3, dark brown, narrowly spatulate to oblanceolate-cuneate, concave, 1 mm, glabrous or abaxially with scattered translucent, club-shaped hairs distally; androphore pale, narrowly obconic, as long as sepals, glabrous, rarely apex with few club-shaped hairs; stamens 2–3, appendages (2–)3. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 3, dark brown, spatulate-oblong, concave, 1 mm, abaxially sparsely pubescent distally, hairs translucent; gynoecium 3-carpellate; styles: apex 3-cleft, appendages 3. <b>Seeds</b> rich translucent brown, broadly ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.4–0.5 mm, longitudinal ribs conspicuous and pale, transverse striae fine forming linear cancellae.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sandy-peaty lake and pond shores, drawdowns, ditchbanks, low sandy clearings in savanna and flatwoods
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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|references=
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name=Lachnocaulon engleri
|authority=Ruhland in H. G. A. Engler
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Eriocaulaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist sandy-peaty lake and pond shores, drawdowns, ditchbanks, low sandy clearings in savanna and flatwoods
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler,Das Pflanzenreich
|publication year=1903
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Lachnocaulon
|species=Lachnocaulon engleri
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