Entry for Websteria confervoides (Poiret) S. S. Hooper [family CYPERACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 23,
Names
Websteria confervoides (Poiret) S. S. Hooper [family CYPERACEAE], Kew Bull., 26: 582. 1972
Scirpus confervoides Poiret [family CYPERACEAE], in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl., 6: 755. 1805
Rhynchospora ruppioides Bentham [family CYPERACEAE]
Scirpus submersus C. Wright [family CYPERACEAE]
Websteria limnophila S. H. Wright [family CYPERACEAE]
Websteria submersa (C. Wright) Britton [family CYPERACEAE]
Discussion
Sterile aquatic specimens of several species of Eleocharis have been confused with Websteria confervoides. Sterile specimens of W. confervoides can be recognized, with some confidence, by their pale, relatively stout main stems with numerous, very slender green branches, the somewhat enlarged nodes, long (to 11 mm) bracts subtending branches, and the usually reddish abscission zone of the bracts. Correctly identified specimens have been seen only from Florida and Georgia.