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Eriocaulaceae
Eriocaulon sexangulare L.
EOL Text
Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa (including Madagascar)].
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Leaves linear, 10--35 cm, 4--13 mm wide at middle, veins 15--37. Scapes 5--20, 20--60 cm, 4--6-ribbed; sheath 4--12 cm; receptacle glabrous; heads subglobose, ca. 6.5 mm in diam., glaucous, base truncate; involucral bracts straw-colored, obovate, 2.2--2.4 mm in diam., rigid, abaxially white clavate hairy; floral bracts obovate to obovate-cuneate, 2--2.5 mm, abaxially hairy toward apex. Male flowers: sepals spathelike, glabrous, laterally winged, apex (2 or)3-lobed or occasionally truncate; petals (2 or)3, linear, apex pubescent, gland usually indistinct; anthers (4--)6, black. Female flowers: sepals (2 or)3, free, glabrous, posterior one smaller than others, sometimes reduced or absent, wingless, lateral ones boatlike, winged; petals (2 or)3, linear, unequal, membranous, occasionally villous at center, apex white clavate hairy; ovary (2 or)3-loculed; style (2 or)3-cleft. Seeds ovoid, 0.6--0.7 mm; testa hexagonally reticulate, prickles 1 per cell, T-shaped. Fl. and fr. Aug--Mar.
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"Acaulescent herbs. Leaves rosulate, 5-16 x 0.3-1 cm, linear-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate. Peduncles many 10-32 cm long, erect, rigid, virgate; sheaths upto 14 cm long; limb lanceolate, acuminate. Heads 4-7 mm across, hemispherical, white or grey. Receptacles ovoid, sparsely pilose. Involucral bracts spreading, 2-3 x 2-2.5 mm, obovate-orbicular, obtuse, coriaceous, straw-coloured. Floral bracts closely imbricate, c. 2.5 x 2 mm, obovate, cuneate, apex acute, coriaceous, hoary dorsally towards apex, borwn. Male flowers: sepals c. 2 x 1.5 mm, obovate, connate into a closed spathe, keeled, straw-coloured. Corolla tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 3, equal, oblong, pubescent, with a black gland in each. Anthers 6, oblong, black. Female flowers: sepals 3, free, dissimilar, c. 2 mm long; the two lateral ones obovate-cuneate, keeled; the middle one oblong, flat, not keeled. Petals 3, c. 1 mm long, linear, hyaline, barbate towards apex, with a black gland in each. Ovary sessile, ovoid; style 3-fid. Seeds c. 0.5 mm long, ovoid; cells of seed coat transversely elongated; appendages setiform, solitary from the transverse radial walls."
Eriocaulon cantoniensis Hooker & Arnott; E. pterosepalum Hayata; E. sinicum Miquel; E. sinii Ruhland; E. wallichianum Martius.
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Holotype for Eriocaulon sexangulare var. micronesicum Moldenke
Catalog Number: US 2850824
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): D. O. Otobed
Year Collected: 1978
Locality: Ngetdang., Babeldaob [Babelthuap], Ngatpang, Belau [Palau], Caroline Islands, Pacific Islands
- Holotype: Moldenke, H. N. 1979. Phytologia. 43: 355.
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Marshy places
Ponds, rice fields; near sea level to 800 m.
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Flowering and fruiting: November-March