Eriocaulon cubense Ruhland

Eriocaulon cubense Ruhl. Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 29. 1925
vStems very short; leaves thin-membranous or subpellucid, linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, mostly about 0.8 mm. wide at the middle, acute, fenestrately 3-nerved, glabrous; peduncles slender, 1 or 2, 4—1 1.5 cm. long, 5or 6-costate, scarcely or but slightly twisted, glabrous; sheaths rather close-fitting, about equaling the leaves, 2-2.7 cm. long, glabrous, obliquely split, the blade short, erect, and acuminate; heads at first hemispheric, finally subglobose, 4-5 mm. in diameter at maturity, white-villose; involucral bractlets pale-flavidulous, obovate, obtuse, pilose at apex on the back; receptacle glabrous; receptacular bractlets whitish, cuneate, acute, densely pilose above the middle on the back; staminate florets: sepals 2, pale-gray at apex, hyaline below, ovate, concave, acute or blunt, scarcely 1 mm. long, long-pilose at apex on the back; petals 2, minute, equal, non-glanduliferous; anthers 4, black; pistillate florets: sepals 2, whitish, navicular, broadly crested-carinate on the back, long-pilose at apex; petals 2, white, spatulate, rounded or acute, glabrous, non-glanduliferous; style long; stigmas 2, short; ovary 2-ovulate.
Type locality: In alkali Hals or on white sand, Santa Barbara, Isle of Pines, Cuba (Ekfnan 206i
DISTRIBUTION; Known only from the type collection.