Eriocaulon brownianum
Medium size monocot herbs with whithish inflorescence and hairy peduncle.
Annual or perennial herbs. Stem forming a basal disc or shortly rhizomatous. Leaves crowded into a basal rosette, linear, 21-70 cm long, 6-16 mm wide, hairs brown, apex acute. Scapes few, up to 95 cm long, hairy, hairs brown. Sheaths 12-30 cm long, hairs brown, apex acute. Capitula globose, 5-10 mm long, 10-15 mm in diameter, white. Receptacle convex, pilose. Involucral bracts oblong to narrowly obovate, 3 mm long, brown but blackish at the apex, hairy, apex obtuse to acute. Floral bracts narrowly obovate, 3-3.5 mm long, blackish, hairy in the upper part, apex acuminate. Male flowers calyx spatheate or fused at the base, 3-lobed, acute, 2-2.5 mm long, blackish, hairy in the upper part; petals equal, hairy, acute, subapical glands present; vestigial gynoecium present; anthers 6, black. Female flowers sepals 3, dissimilar, boat-shaped, two lateral ones winged and keeled, the middle one winged only, acuminate, 2.5-3 mm long, black, hairy in the upper part; petals 3, linear, acute, 3 mm long, brown, hairy in the upper part, subapical glands present; ovary 3-locular; seed 0.7-1 mm long, dark brown, long papillate