- Family:
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Eleocharis R.Br.
Eleocharis minima Kunth

[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Andean, Guiana Shield, Orinoquia. Elevation range: 130–2800 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Boyacá, Caquetá, Casanare, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Meta, Nariño, Santander.
- Habit
- Herb.
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 130 - 2800 m.; Andes, Guayana y Serranía de La Macarena, Orinoquia, Valle del Magdalena.
- Morphology General Habit
- Hierba
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
Doubtfully present in:
French Guiana
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Maryland, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela
Eleocharis minima Kunth appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 2008 | Zappi, D.C. [1480], Mato Grosso | K000579112 | Yes | ||
Nov 1, 2007 | Sasaki, D. [1616], Mato Grosso | K000578469 | Yes | ||
Dec 1, 2003 | Harley, R.M. [16980], Bahia | K000189312 | Yes | ||
Oct 1, 2003 | Harley, R.M. [16979], Bahia | K000189241 | Yes | ||
Oct 1, 2003 | Pirani, J.R. [7227B], Bahia | K000189686 | Yes | ||
Oct 1, 2003 | Salzmann, P. [s.n.], Bahia | K000189268 | Yes | ||
Feb 28, 1898 | Pringle, G.C. [4339], Mexico | K000632259 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1889 | Liebmann [s.n.], Mexico | K000632260 | Yes | ||
Noblick, L.R. [s.n.], Bahia | K000189303 | Yes | |||
Pickel, D.B. [3448], Pernambuco | K000189301 | Yes | |||
Salzmann, P. [s.n.], Bahia | K000189302 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
Rusby, H.H. [1066], Colombia | K000632174 | Yes | |||
Salzmann, P. [s.n.], Bahia | K000632209 | Yes | |||
Wright, C. [3369], Cuba | K000632240 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
Jameson [369], Ecuador | K000632175 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
Britton, N.L. [2491], Trinidad & Tobago | K000632238 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
Crueger [s.n.], Trinidad & Tobago | K000632239 | Yes |
First published in Enum. Pl. 2: 139 (1837)
Accepted by
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1997). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 5: 1-98. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
- Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
- Kral, R., Diamond, A.R., Ginzbarg, S.L., Hansen, C.J., Haynes, R.R., Keener, B.R., Lelong, M.G., Spaulding, D.D. & Woods, M. (2011). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Alabama: 1-112. Botanical reseach institute of Texas.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Silveira, G.H. & Longhi-Wagner, H.M. (2008). Cyperaceae Juss. no Morro Santana - Porto Alegre e Viamåo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Iheringia: Botânica 63: 295-320.
- de Moura Júnior, E.G. & al. (2015). Updated checklist of aquatic macrophytes from Northern Brazil Acta Amazonica 45: 111-132.
- de Oliveira Ribeiro, A.R. & al. (2014). Cyperaceae do rio Apodi-Mossoró, estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil Hoehnea 41: 149-171.
Literature
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1997). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 5: 1-98. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
- Kral, R., Diamond, A.R., Ginzbarg, S.L., Hansen, C.J., Haynes, R.R., Keener, B.R., Lelong, M.G., Spaulding, D.D. & Woods, M. (2011). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Alabama: 1-112. Botanical reseach institute of Texas.
- de Oliveira Ribeiro, A.R. & al. (2014). Cyperaceae do rio Apodi-Mossoró, estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil Hoehnea 41: 149-171.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
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