View source for Eleocharis torticulmis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eleocharis torticulmis
|accepted_authority=S. G. Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=11: 250, figs. 2, 4E–I. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Zinserlingia;Eleocharis torticulmis
|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. Zinserlingia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis torticulmis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 112, 113
|treatment_page=page 115
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes 1.5–2 mm thick, scales persistent, 7–9 mm, thinly papery, sometimes fibrous; resting buds unknown; caudices present, hard, 3 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> erect, markedly spirally twisted, markedly obliquely contracted near spikelet, when dry often with to 6 broad, rounded ridges on each side, greatly compressed, 3–4 times as wide as thick, 20–40 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm, firm; culm tufts not proximally bulbous. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths stramineous to medium (or dark) brown, papery, apex often dark brown to reddish, broadly obtuse. <b>Spikelets</b> 6–8 × 2–3 mm; proximal scale empty, 3–4 mm, shorter than to equaling spikelet; floral scales 8–10 per spikelet, 3.5–5 × 2 mm. <b>Perianth</b> bristles 0–5, unequal, rudimentary to equaling achene, the shorter stout, smooth or nearly so, the longer slender, densely spinulose. <b>Anthers</b> 1.8 –3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> stramineous to medium brown, thickly trigonous, 1.75–2.75 × 1–1.25 mm; beak 0.3–0.6 mm. <b>Tubercles</b> 0.25–0.6 × 0.3–0.55 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jun–Jul).
|habitat=Fens, wet meadows, vernal ponds
|elevation=1100 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Eleocharis torticulmis</i> is known only from the botanically rich Butterfly Valley in Plumas County.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eleocharis torticulmis
|authority=S. G. Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer (Jun–Jul).
|habitat=Fens, wet meadows, vernal ponds
|elevation=1100 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Zinserlingia
|species=Eleocharis torticulmis
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