English: Caulescent hatpins; Pipewort.
German: Stängeltragender Hutpfeifenstrauch.
Clades: Tracheophytes, Angiosperms,
Monocots, Commelinids,
Poales,
Eriocaulaceae.
Region: America, Mexico through Central and South America, Colombia, Brazil, Amazon basin.
Habitat: wet tropical montane biomes, seasonally inundated wetlands, margins of slow-flowing streams, and shallow water or marshy soils.
Use: ornamental, in aquariums, and high-humidity paludariums, wet terrariums.
Other: Distinguished from many other rosette-forming
Eriocaulaceae species by its clear, upright, leafy above-ground stem (caulescens means "becoming stalked").
BotanyType: herb, subshrub, helophyte (marsh plant)
Root: fine, fibrous root system ;adapted to wet, waterlogged, and highly acidic soils.
Stem: distinct, elongated, upright (caulescent) above-ground; simple or branched, densely covered by leaves.
Leaves: linear to lanceolate; narrow, grass-like; cluster near the apical tips.
Inflorescence: dense, head-like cluster.
Flowers: tiny, trimerous; stalkless; unisexual or bisexual; fused perianth parts; specialized nectariferous structures; enveloped in protective, often whitish or pale-brown involucral bracts, elevated on a slender peduncle (scape).
Pollination: by small insects.
Fruit: small, dry, multi-seeded capsule, loculicidal.
Seed: extremely minute, dust-like..
Dispersion: by wind, water.