Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eleocharis reverchonii Svenson, Rhodora 31 : 203. 1929.
Extensively creeping, with long, filiform rootstocks; culms capillary, sulcate, 2-20 cm. long; spikelets 2-4 mm. long, purple, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, many-flowered; scales ovate, obtuse, hyaline at the margin; style trifid; anthers 3, 0.7-1.0 mm. long; achenes 0.5-0.7 mm. long, narrowed at apex and base, with about 20 trabeculae in each longitudinal series ; style-base conic; bristles lacking.
* "yokoscencis," corrected in index. Type locality: Western Texas (Reverchon). Distribution : Prairies, Texas.
- bibliographic citation
- Henry Knut Svenson. 1957. (POALES); (CYPERACEAE); SCIRPEAE (CONTINUATIO). North American flora. vol 18(9). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
