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Eriocaulon miquelianum Körn.   (redirected from: Eriocaulon kengii Ruhland)
Family: Eriocaulaceae
[Eriocaulon atroides Satake, moreEriocaulon atroides f. nanum Satake, Eriocaulon dimorphoelytrum T.Koyama, Eriocaulon kengii Ruhland, Eriocaulon lutchuense Koidz., Eriocaulon matsumurae Nakai, Eriocaulon mikawanum Satake & T.Koyama, Eriocaulon mikawanum var. azumianum Hid.Takah. & H.Suzuki, Eriocaulon miquelianum var. atrosepalum Satake, Eriocaulon miquelianum var. lutchuense (Koidz.) T.Koyama, Eriocaulon miquelianum var. matsumurae (Nakai) Z.X.Zhang, Eriocaulon miquelianum var. tenuissimum (Nakai) Satake, Eriocaulon piliphorum Satake, Eriocaulon sikokianum Maxim., Eriocaulon sikokianum var. atrosepalum Satake, Eriocaulon sikokianum var. linanense W.L.Ma, Eriocaulon sikokianum var. lutchuense (Koidz.) Satake, Eriocaulon sikokianum var. matsumurae (Nakai) Satake, Eriocaulon tenuissimum Nakai]
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Japan Flora: Acaulescent annual; leaves linear, 5- 20 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; peduncles numerous, exceeding the leaves, slender, twisted, 4- to 5-ribbed; heads turbinate, 6-10 mm. across; involucral bracts many, spreading, the outer lanceolate, acute, twice as long or much longer than the disc flowers, the inner ovate; receptacle usually glabrous; flowers numerous; floral bracts ovate-cuneate, nearly as long as the flowers, puberulent on the back above; staminate flowers 2.5 mm. long; pisdllate flowers 2.5-3 mm. long, the calyx an oval 3-lobed spathe, white-puberulent on the upper margin, gla­brous outside and pilose inside, the petals 3, free, ovate- lanceolate, narrowed at base, long-pilose inside, the stigmas 3, longer than the style. 

Small stemless annual; leaves few, slenderly linear, 1-4 cm. long, 0.3-1 mm. wide, acuminate; peduncles 1-3, 5-7 cm. long; heads lageniform-turbinate, 3.5-6 mm. long, 2.5-3.5 mm. wide, white, 3- to 6-flowered; involucral bracts pale white, ovate-lanceolate, 3.2-5.5 mm. long, cuspidate, exceeding the flowers; receptacle pilose; floral bracts oblong- elliptic, white, short-puberulent on back above; pistillate flowers 2.7-3 mm. long, the calyx white, thin, orbicular-oval, distinctly 3-Iobed, white-pubescent on the upper margin, gla­brous on both sides, die petals ovate-lanceolate, cuneate and short-stipitate at base, pilose inside, the stigmas 3. Peat bogs            

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; China

var. atrosepalum Satake. Heads few-flowered; receptacle pilose; pistillate calyces blackish.  Honshu (Uzen).

var. monococcon (Nakai) T. Koyama Very slender; receptacle gla­brous; pistillate flowers with unilocular ovary and single stigma. Peaty soil; Hokkaido, Honshu (Yamato Prov.) scarce. Stemless annual; leaves linear, 12-18 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, gradually attenuate to a somewhat firm acute tip; peduncles numerous, 15-40 cm. tall, prominently 5- or 6-ribbed, twisted; heads hemisphaerical or turbinate, about 1 cm. across; in­volucral bracts about 12-14, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, 1.5 times longer than the disc flowers or shorter; floral bracts obovate, rather acute, puberu­lent, slightly shorter than the flowers; pistillate flowers with spathelike, 3-lobed, puberulent calyx, the petals 3, free, lan­ceolate, cuneate at base, rather acute and puberulent at apex, glabrous outside, pilose inside. A variable species.

var. sikokianum. Receptacle pilose; floral bracts and calyces rather densely white-puberulent on the upper margin; ovary 3-locular; stigmas 3. Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea.

var. lutchuense (Koidz.) Satake. Receptacle quite glabrous; floral bracts and calyces also not bearded; otherwise almost as in the typical variety. Honshu (Shimotsuke Prov.), Kyushu. Ryukyus.

var. piliphorum (Satake) Satake. Receptacle pilose; some flowers with the ovary 2-locular and the stigmas 3. Honshu (NagatoProv.).

var. matsumurae (Nakai) Satakc. Receptacle gla­brous; some pistillate flowers with the ovary 2Jocular and with 2 stigmas. Honshu (Bitchu Prov.).

var. mikawanum (Satake & T. Koyama) T. Koyama. Plants slender, small; receptacle pilose; pistillate flowers with unilocular ovary and single stigma. Honshu (Tsukude Moor, Mikawa Prov.).

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