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|accepted_name=Eriocaulon decangulare
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 87. 1753
|year=1753
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|name=Eriocaulon serotinum
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
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|name=Eriocaulon statices
|authority=Crantz
|rank=species
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|name=Randalia decangularis
|authority=Palisot de Beauvois
|rank=species
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|name=Symphachne xyrioides
|authority=(Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Eriocaulaceae;Eriocaulon;Eriocaulon decangulare
|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 decangulare]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 30–110 cm. <b>Leaves</b> linear or linear-attenuate, abruptly, then gradually, narrowing, 10–40(–50) cm, apex acute or obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths shorter than principal leaves; scapes linear, distally 1–2(–3) mm wide, multiribbed; heads dull white, hemispheric to nearly globose, 7–15 mm wide, hard, very slightly flattened when pressed; receptacle copiously hairy; involucral bracts reflexed, obscured by reflexed proximal bracteoles and flowers, straw-colored, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins erose to entire, apex acute, glabrous or apex with white, club-shaped hairs; inner bracts and receptacular bracteoles pale, linear to oblong or lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins entire, sometimes becoming erose, apex narrowly acuminate, glabrous or apex with white, club-shaped hairs. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 2, yellow-white, linear, curved, 3 mm, distal surface abaxially, adaxially with white, club-shaped hairs; androphore club-shaped; petals 2, yellow-white, translucent, triangular to linear, nearly equal, with small tuft of white, club-shaped hairs abaxially at apex; stamens 4; anthers black. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 2, yellow-white, linear, 2–3 mm, apex acute, abaxially with white, club-shaped hairs at apex; petals 2, pale, spatulate or narrowly elliptic, 1–2 mm, abaxially with translucent hairs proximally, white, club-shaped hairs distally, or adaxially glabrescent; pistil 2-carpellate. <b>Seeds</b> pale brown, ellipsoid, 0.75–1 mm, very finely cancellate or sometimes with cancellae concealed by rows of delicate nearly appressed hairs.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands or peats of shores, pine savanna, ditches, edges of cypress domes or savanna
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;Central America (Nicaragua).
|discussion=<p>A possible variety, <i>Eriocaulon decangulare</i> <i></i>var.<i> latifolium</i> Chapman ex Moldenke [in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 19(1): 21. 1937], has yet to be thoroughly investigated. This plant typically is in the taller range and has thicker stems and scapes than in the type; it has very stiff blunt leaves to 50 cm × 13–20 mm with thicker scapes, heads 13–20 mm wide, and floral parts in the high range for the species. It occurs in wetter situations than usual for the species, and (fide R. R. Haynes, pers. comm.) flowers later. This morphology occurs in northwestern Florida and southern Alabama within boggy edges of cypress-titi-<i>Nyssa</i> on permanently wet substrates.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriocaulon decangulare
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eriocaulon serotinum;Eriocaulon statices;Randalia decangularis;Symphachne xyrioides
|basionyms=
|family=Eriocaulaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet sands or peats of shores, pine savanna, ditches, edges of cypress domes or savanna
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;Central America (Nicaragua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_123.xml
|genus=Eriocaulon
|species=Eriocaulon decangulare
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