View source for Lachnocaulon minus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Lachnocaulon minus
|accepted_authority=(Chapman) Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora of the Southeastern United States
|place=235, 1328. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lachnocaulon michauxii var. minor
|authority=Chapman
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S. ed.
|publication_place=3, 531. 1897
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lachnocaulon eciliatum
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Eriocaulaceae;Lachnocaulon;Lachnocaulon minus
|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 minus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> short-lived perennial, solitary or cespitose, forming low domes of rosettes, 6–15(–20) cm. <b>Leaves</b> linear-triangular, 2–4 cm, apex narrowly acute to subulate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths shorter than principal leaves; scapes filiform, 0.3–0.4 mm thick, 4–5-ribbed, pilose from base to apex, with ascending hairs; mature heads dull gray-brown, globose to short-cylindric, 3–4 mm wide; receptacle copiously hairy, partly obscuring flowers (old heads may lose some hairs); involucral bracts soon reflexed, pale to dark brown, mostly ovate or broadly oblong, 1 mm, apex broadly acute, distal margins pilose, hairs translucent, capitate, abaxial surface distally pilose, hairs translucent; receptacular bracts pale brown to chestnut brown, broadly spatulate or pandurate, concave, 1(–1.5) mm, apex rounded or obtuse, abaxial surface pilose toward apex, hairs translucent; Staminate flowers: sepals 3, chestnut brown, base greenish, spatulate, blade concave, 1–1.5 mm, apex rounded or obtuse, abaxial surface pilose toward apex, hairs translucent; androphore yellow-white, narrowly obconic, as long as sepals, glabrous, rarely with apex hairy, hairs club-shaped, short; anthers 3, appendages 3. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 3, pale, spatulate, concave, 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse or short-acuminate, abaxial surface apically with translucent hairs; gynoecium 3-carpellate; stylar column pale, apex 3-cleft, appendages 3. <b>Seeds</b> deep clear brown, ellipsoid, 0.5 mm, apex apiculate, body longitudinally low-ribbed, ribs pale, transverse striae fine.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond edges, ditchbanks, lake shores, drawdowns or moist exposed seeps
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>The favorite habitat of <i>Lachnocaulon minus</i> is the fluctuating shores of karst ponds where it may be aspect dominant along the edge of the maximum pool.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lachnocaulon minus
|authority=(Chapman) Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lachnocaulon eciliatum
|basionyms=Lachnocaulon michauxii var. minor
|family=Eriocaulaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sands and peats of pond edges, ditchbanks, lake shores, drawdowns or moist exposed seeps
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora of the Southeastern United States
|publication year=1903
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_410.xml
|genus=Lachnocaulon
|species=Lachnocaulon minus
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Lachnocaulon]]