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Taxon:  Eleocharis dulcis (Burm. f.) Trin. ex Hensch.



Summary
Genus:
Eleocharis
Family:
Cyperaceae
Subfamily:
Cyperoideae
Tribe:
Eleocharideae
Nomen number:
14976
Place of publication:
Vita Rumphii 186. 1833
Verified:
05/24/1994 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Andropogon dulcis Burm. f.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eleocharis tuberosa (Roxb.) Schult.
Scirpus tuberosus Roxb.
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Reference(s)
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  2. Browning, J. & C. J. Ward. 1997. Studies in Cyperaceae in Southern Africa 32: Eleocharis subgenus Limnochloa section Limnochloa. S. African J. Bot. 63:173.
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
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  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  7. Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:97-100.
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  9. Gordon-Gray, K. D. Cyperaceae in Natal. 1995
  10. Govaerts, R. & D. A. Simpson. World checklist of Cyperaceae, sedges. 2007
  11. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
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  13. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  14. Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979
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  18. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  19. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
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  21. Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. Flora malesiana. 1948-
  22. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
Chinese water-chestnut –
ground-chestnut –
waternut –
French
châtaigne d'eau –
German
chinesische Wassernuß –
Wasserkastanie –
Spanish
cabezas de negrito –
nuez china –
pitsi –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBurkina Faso  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCote D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGambia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMauritius  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanSeychelles  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanHonshu 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanKyushu 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanRyukyu Islands 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
1NativePacificNorthwestern PacificMicronesia  
1NativePacificNorthwestern PacificNorthern Mariana Islands  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificFiji  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificNew Caledonia  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificSamoa  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificTonga  
2Cultivated     
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Zambia
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia]
Pacific
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga, Samoa
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodstarch Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:97-100.
Human foodvegetable Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:97-100.
Weed  CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=14976. Accessed 30 September 2026.


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