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|accepted_name=Eriocaulon koernickianum
|accepted_authority=Van Heurck & Muller-Argoviensis in H. F. Van Heurck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. F. Van Heurck,Observ. Bot.
|place=1: 101. 1870
|year=1870
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Eriocaulaceae;Eriocaulon;Eriocaulon koernickianum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Eriocaulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriocaulon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriocaulon koernickianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 5–8 cm. <b>Leaves</b> linear-attenuate, 2–5 cm, apex subulate to blunt. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths as long as leaves, inflated; scapes filiform, 0.5 mm wide, 3–4-ribbed; heads dark gray or gray-green with rims of bracts and perianth pale, nearly globose or short-oblong, 3–4 mm wide, soft; receptacle glabrous; outer involucral bracts usually not reflexed, not obscured by bracteoles and perianth, straw-colored, very lustrous, broadly oblong to suborbiculate, 1–1.25 mm, margins nearly entire, apex rounded, glabrous; inner bracts, receptacular bracteoles dark gray, gray-green, or gray-brown, very lustrous, oblong to cuneate, obliquely keeled, 1.5 mm, margins slightly erose, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, with a few white, club-shaped hairs. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 2, grayish, linear-curvate, 1–1.5 mm, apex with a few white, club-shaped hairs abaxially, marginally; androphore broadly club-shaped; petals 2, low, toothlike, nearly equal, apex with club-shaped hairs; stamens 4; anthers black. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 2, gray, linear-curvate, 1 mm, apex with scattered hairs abaxially, hairs pale, club-shaped, otherwise glabrous; petals 2, yellow-white, stipitate, broadly suborbiculate-rhombic, 1 mm, apex with white, club-shaped hairs abaxially; pistil 2-carpellate. <b>Seeds</b> deep reddish brown, broadly ovoid or ellipsoid, 0.5 mm, often indistinctly reticulate or rugulose, papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands and sandy silts of seeps, particularly over and around arenaceous outcrops
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ga.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriocaulon koernickianum</i> is the most diminutive of our eriocaulons, widely disjunct in Georgia but seemingly most abundant on Piedmont granites.</p><!--
--><p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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name=Eriocaulon koernickianum
|authority=Van Heurck & Muller-Argoviensis in H. F. Van Heurck
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Eriocaulaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands and sandy silts of seeps, particularly over and around arenaceous outcrops
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ga.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. F. Van Heurck,Observ. Bot.
|publication year=1870
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_422.xml
|genus=Eriocaulon
|species=Eriocaulon koernickianum
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