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Eleocharis (spike-rushes)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Eleocharis multicaulis (Smith) Desv. (Many-stalked Spike-rush)   2 11 1
Species Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roemer & Schultes (Common Spike-rush) 2 9 19 18
Species Eleocharis parvula (Roemer & Schultes) Link ex Bluff, Nees & Schauer (Dwarf Spike-rush)       3
Species Eleocharis quinqueflora (F.Hartmann) O.Schwarz (Few-flowered Spike-rush)       3
Species Eleocharis uniglumis (Link) Schultes (Slender Spike-rush)       3

Suggested Literature

Eleocharis may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Eleocharis:

pollen pollen is foodplant of adult Donacia thalassina - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007
root root is foodplant of larva Donacia thalassina - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007

Eleocharis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland

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