828.000 Eriocaulon L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Involucral bracts scarious to coriaceous, spreading to reflexed at maturity. Floral bracts often white-hairy towards the tip. Flowers borne on a central receptacle; male and female mixed or female around the edge. Sepals free or ± connate in male flowers, usually free in the female. Petals usually with a black gland near or at the tip, often white-hairy at the tip. Male petals all small or one enlarged and exserted. Male flowers with stamens (in our species) 6 or 4, twice as many as the petals; anthers black or white. Female flowers with petals free. Seeds ellipsoid, smooth or distinctively patterned.

Derivation of name: from Greek: erion meaning wool, caulos meaning stem

Worldwide: c. 400 species in tropical and warm regions of the world; some temperate.

Caprivi: 9 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
buchananii Ruhland
fulvum N.E.Br.
inundatum Moldenke
nigericum Meikle
schimperi Ruhland	Description, Image
setaceum L.
teusczii Engl. & Ruhland ex Ruhland
transvaalicum N.E.Br. subsp. dembianense (Chiov.) S.M.Phillips
zambesiense Ruhland

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