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Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Eleocharis pusilla R.Br. (1810)
Description
Rhizome pale brown, often very slender, 1–3 mm. diam. Culms (1)–3–12 cm. long, setaceous, us. much < 0.5 mm. diam., rather densely tufted; sheaths very thin and membr., transparent, red-veined, the upper sheath colourless and rather inflated below the oblique orifice. Spikelet 2.5–3 × c. 1mm., few-fld, ovate, acute. Glumes 1.5–2 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Hypog. bristles us. 0, occ. 2–3. Stamens 3. Style 3-fld. Nut c. 1 × 0.5 mm., narrowly obovoid, obscurely trigonous, almost white, each face with 3–4 thick, vertical ribs joined by fine transverse bars; the persistent style very small, much constricted at base.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Data deficient]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
