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|accepted_name=Eleocharis radicans
|accepted_authority=(Poiret) Kunth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 142. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scirpus radicans
|authority=Poiret
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication_place=6: 751. 1804
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis acicularis var. radicans
|authority=(Poiret) Britton
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eleocharis lindheimeri
|authority=Svenson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Scirpidium;Eleocharis radicans
|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. Scirpidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis radicans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 108
|treatment_page=page 112
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming; rhizomes 0.2–0.5 mm thick, longer internodes 5–10 mm, scales not evident. <b>Culms</b> obscurely to ca. 10-ribbed when dry, terete, 1–12 cm × 0.4–1 mm, very soft, spongy. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths fugaceous, colorless, translucent, apex blunt. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute; scales 5–15, 5–7 per mm of rachilla, colorless to stramineous, rarely slightly reddish, medially broadly greenish to colorless, faintly 3–5-veined, often ovate, membranous, fleshy; proximal scale 2–2.5 × 0.7 mm, other scales 1.5–2 × 0.7 mm, midrib obscure to slightly keeled, apex acute to rounded. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles equaling achene; anthers yellow to brown, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brownish, angles plus longitudinal ridges ca. 7, narrowly obovoid, 2 times longer than wide, 0.75–0.9 × 0.35–0.4 mm, trabeculae ca. 50, distinct. <b>Tubercles</b> brown, pyramidal, 0.15 × 0.15–0.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–winter (Apr–Dec).
|habitat=Stream alluvium, lake margins, meadows, seeps, bogs
|elevation=100–1400 Ariz., Calif., Fla., La., Mich., Okla., Tex., Va.
|distribution=n Mexico;West Indies;Central America (El Salvador);South America (Argentina;Chile);Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eleocharis radicans
|authority=(Poiret) Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eleocharis acicularis var. radicans;Eleocharis lindheimeri
|basionyms=Scirpus radicans
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–winter (Apr–Dec).
|habitat=Stream alluvium, lake margins, meadows, seeps, bogs
|elevation=100–1400 Ariz., Calif., Fla., La., Mich., Okla., Tex., Va.
|distribution=n Mexico;West Indies;Central America (El Salvador);South America (Argentina;Chile);Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Scirpidium
|species=Eleocharis radicans
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