Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eleocharis sellowiana
Annual; culms densely tufted with fibrous roots, (4)8-30(40) cm tall, 0.6-1 mm broad, relatively soft, striate; sheaths 2 or 3 to a culm, membranous, 1-6 cm long, reddish brown or straw-colored, apex white-hyaline, fugacious, irregulary bilobed (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
In swampy places and along dried-out margins of pools (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Eleocharis
Species
sellowiana
Taxon category: Accepted
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 SE. Mexico to S. Tropical America (POWO, 2023).
- CONABIO (2009) Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. Cap. nat. México 1.
- Davidse, G. Sousa, S.M. & Chater, A.O. (1994) Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: i–xvi, 1–543.
- Eliasson, U. (1965) Studies in Galápagos Plants. II. Cyperales. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 59: 469-491.
- Funk, V.T. Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N. (2007) Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1-584.
- González E. (1994) 22. Eleocharis R. Br. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: 458–464.
- 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.
- 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 sellowiana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=901. Accessed 3 November 2026.