Eriocaulon minutissimum Ruhland

Eriocaulon minutissimum Ruhl. Rcpert. Sp. Nov. 22: 32
1925.
Plants extremely dwarf; stems much abbreviated; leaves thin-membranous, few, tufted,
spreading, linear, 5-8 mm. long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide at the middle, plane, acute, fenestrately
3-nerved, glabrous; peduncles mostly solitary, rarely 2, filiform, 1.2-3 cm. long, not at all or
but slightly twisted, obscurely 3-costate, glabrous; heads nigrescent, at first obconic, later
subcylindric, about 0.5 mm. in diameter, few-flowered, glabrous; involucral bractlets very few
(4-6), membranous, greenish-hyaline, lanceolate-obovate, concave, acute, glabrous; receptacle
subglabrate; receptacular bractlets similar to the involucral ones, greenish-olivaceous, concave;
florets very minute; staminate florets: about 0.5 mm. long; sepals 2, linear-oblong, acute,
glabrous, olivaceous at apex; petals none; anthers 4, black; pistillate florets: sepals 2, gray,
linear-lanceolate, rather acute, minutely alate-carinate, glabrous; petals grayish toward apex,
obovate, blunt, glabrous; ovary 2-seeded; stigmas 2, simple.
Type locality: In moist places among "bell grasses" at Arroyo Mateo Sanchez, Mateo Sanchez. Pinar del Rio City, Pinar del Rio. Cuba {Ekman 17948). Distribution: Known only from the type collection.