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|accepted_name=Eleocharis elongata
|accepted_authority=Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=515. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eleocharis;Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa;Eleocharis elongata
|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. Limnochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eleocharis elongata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 62, 112, 116
|treatment_page=page 117
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomes 1–1.5 mm thick, soft, longer internodes 2–3 cm, scales 5–14 mm, tubers absent. <b>Culms</b> obscurely trigonous to terete; spikelet-bearing culms 16–80 cm × 0.5–1.5 mm; when submersed plants often forming numerous, filiform flaccid culms without spikelets, sometimes with whorls of slender branches, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, soft; sometimes septate-nodulose when aquatic, internally spongy, transverse septa incomplete. <b>Leaves</b>: distal leaf sheaths persistent or decaying, membranous, apex acute, often prolonged into translucent portion to 1 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> not proliferous, (6–)9–24 × 1.4–2.2 mm; rachilla joints bearing prominent winglike remnants of floral scales; proximal scale with a flower, amplexicaulous, 2.5–4.1 mm; floral scales 7–26, 1–2 per mm of rachilla, green to stramineous or pale brown, often minutely dotted reddish, usually with conspicuous dark brown to blackish submarginal band, narrowly ovate, 3.5–4.5 × 2 mm, thickly papery, membranous toward margins. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 6–7, whitish to stramineous or pale reddish brown, proximally slightly flattened, unequal, exceeding or rarely shorter than achene, 0.7–1.9 mm, retrorsely spinulose; anthers yellow to reddish, 1.7–1.9 mm; styles 3-fid. <b>Achenes</b> whitish, stramineous, or pale green, obovoid to obpyriform, compressed trigonous with adaxial face broadest, or biconvex, 0.65–1.4 × 0.5–0.8 mm, clearly sculptured at 10–15X, each face with 10–13 rows of rectangular, transversely elongated cells, apex constricted to short neck 0.2–0.25(–0.3) mm wide, wider at tubercle base. <b>Tubercles</b> dark brown, pyramidal, 0.2–0.5 × 0.2–0.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–late fall.
|habitat=Sometimes drying ponds, lakeshores, marshes, creeks, canals, ditches
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;N.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Eleocharis elongata</i> sometimes grows with <i>E. robbinsii</i>; no intermediates are known.</p>
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name=Eleocharis elongata
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–late fall.
|habitat=Sometimes drying ponds, lakeshores, marshes, creeks, canals, ditches
|elevation=10–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;N.C.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=
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|genus=Eleocharis
|subgenus=Eleocharis subg. Limnochloa
|species=Eleocharis elongata
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