Eleocharis flavescens (Poir.) Urb. (Symb. Antill. 4: 116. 1903.)
Localities: West Indies (native), Lesser Antilles (native) [Dominica, Martinique, Monserrat, St. Lucia, ], Greater Antilles [Jamaica (native), Cuba (native), Hispaniola (native)[], Puerto Rico (native)[], Virgin Islands (native) ( St. Thomas, ) ], North America (native), Mexico (native), Central America (Costa Rica), South America (native),
Synonyms: Eleocharis albivaginata Boeckeler var. flaccida (Rchb. ex A. Spreng.) Boeck. (Linnaea 36: 437. 1870.), Eleocharis albivaginata Boeckeler var. humilis Boeck. (Linnaea 36: 438. 1870.), Eleocharis dussiana Boeckeler (Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 2: 54. 1896.), Eleocharis flaccida (Rchb. ex Spreng.) Urb. (Symb. Antill. 2: 165. 1900.), Eleocharis flaccida (Rchb. ex Spreng.) Urb. var. fuscescens Kük. (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 23: 191. 1926.), Eleocharis flavescens (Poir.) Urb. var. dussiana (Boeck.) Stehlé (Notul. Syst. (Paris) 13: 91. 1947.), Eleocharis ochreata (Nees) Steud. (Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 79. 1854.), Eleocharis ochreata (Nees) Steud. var. flaccida (Rchb. ex A. Spreng.) Boeck. ex C.B. Clarke (in I. Urban, Symb. Antill. 2: 63. 1900.), Eleocharis ochreata (Nees) Steud. var. humilis (Boeck.) C.B. Clarke (in I. Urban, Symb. Antill. 2: 64. 1900.), Eleocharis punctulata Boeckeler ex Duss (Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille 3: 544. 1897 ["1896"].), Eleogenus ochreatus Nees (in C.F.P. von Martius, Fl. Bras. 2(1): 102. 1842.), Scirpus anisochaetus C. Wright (in F.A. Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Ci. Méd. Habana 8: 78. 1871.), Scirpus caribaeus Griseb. (Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 7: 269. 1857.), Scirpus flaccidus Rchb. ex Spreng. (Tent. Suppl. 3. 1828.), Scirpus flavescens Poir. (in J.B.A.P.M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 756. 1805.), Scirpus ochreatus (Nees) Griseb. (Pl. Wright. 2: 535. 1862.),
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