Eleocharis acuta
Sharp spike-sedge
- Scientific Name
- Eleocharis acuta
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- R. Br.
- Presence
- North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
- Habitat
- Stream and lake margins
- Temperature (°C)
- cold water aquaria
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Propagation
- Transplant culms/dividing existing plants or from seed
- Features
- E. acuta culms are erect, green and very variable in size, from 2 to 90 cm tall. Uppermost leaf sheath is usually truncate, distinctly mucronate and has a thickened orifice. The terminal spike is up to 25 mm long.
- Source
- TIFBIS