Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eleocharis maculosa
Densely tufted perennial with long-creeping, slender stolons; culms slender, stiffish, 7-30 cm tall, 0.5-0.7 mm broad, obtusely trigonous, sulcate; sheaths 2 or 3 to a culm, the lower ones red-brown or reddish purplish (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Sporadically recorded from wet and swampy places (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Eleocharis
Species
maculosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Eleocharis maculosa (Vahl) R. Br. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America (POWO, 2023).
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Standley, P.C. Steyermark, J.A. (1958) Cyperaceae. In: P.C. Standley & J.A. Steyermark (eds.): Flora of Guatemala—Part I. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(1): 90–196.
- Svenson, H.K. (1935) Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galapagos and Cocos Islands). Am. J. Bot. 22: 208-277.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Eleocharis maculosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=898. Accessed 2 November 2026.