View source for Eleocharis melanocarpa

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|accepted_name=Eleocharis melanocarpa
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=3: 311. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Black-fruited spike-rush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis;Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis;Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Melanocarpae;Eleocharis melanocarpa
|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. Melanocarpae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis melanocarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 62, 66, 87
|treatment_page=page 89
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>to 2 times wider than thick, 35–60(–70) cm × 0.5–1.3 mm, hard, usually with to 10 blunt ribs, at 20X often finely ridged and minutely granular. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths brown to reddish. <b>Spikelets</b> 3–12 × 3–4 mm; proximal scale amplexicaulous, 3.5–4 mm, midrib region very broad and fleshy, apex entire; subproximal scale with a flower; floral scales 30–40, 8–10 per mm of rachilla, orange-brown to stramineous, midrib region stramineous, broadly ovate, papery or sometimes membranous, 3–4 × 2 mm, apex entire, rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles present, sometimes rudimentary, brown, length variable, obscurely retrorsely spinulose; anthers brown, 1.7–2.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> subdeltoid in outline, sometimes broadly obpyriform, equilaterally trigonous, angles prominent, 0.9–1.2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, apex truncate. <b>Tubercles</b> sessile, depressed-pyramidal, often apiculate, as wide as achene, 0.3–0.5 × 0.7–1.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Fresh, oligotrophic, acid, sandy or peaty, often drying shores, ponds, ditches
|elevation=10–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Mass.;Mich.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis melanocarpa</i> is reported from Rhode Island; I have not seen a voucher specimen.</p>
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name=Eleocharis melanocarpa
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Fresh, oligotrophic, acid, sandy or peaty, often drying shores, ponds, ditches
|elevation=10–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Mass.;Mich.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1836
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis
|section=Eleocharis sect. Eleocharis
|series=Eleocharis (sect. Eleocharis) ser. Melanocarpae
|species=Eleocharis melanocarpa
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