Cyperaceae
Many-stalked spike-rush
Eleocharis multicaulis
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Eleocharis
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Common names
By language (12)
- Dutch
- Veelstengelige waterbies
- English
- Many-stalked spike-rush
- Finnish
- Liejuluikka
- French
- Scirpe à nombreuses tiges
- German
- Vielstängelige Sumpfbinse, Vielstengelige Sumpfsimse
- hsb
- Wjelezdorkata syćawka
- Latvian
- Daudzstublāju pameldrs
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Buntsivaks
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Buntsivaks
- Polish
- Ponikło wielołodygowe
- Swedish
- Dysäv
- Welsh
- Ysbigfrwynen gadeiriog
Synonyms
- Clavula multicaulis (Sm.) Dumort.
- Clavula multicaulis var. vivipara Dumort.
- Cyperus multicaulis (Sm.) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause
- Eleocharis multicaulis f. vivipara (Dumort.) P.Silva
- Eleocharis multicaulis var. incurva Lojac.
- Eleocharis multicaulis var. mariana A.Terracc.
- Eleocharis multicaulis var. vivipara (Dumort.) Lej. & Courtois
- Eleocharis multiculmis var. praelonga Lojac.
- Limnochloa multicaulis (Sm.) Rchb.
- Limnochloa multiculmis Rchb.
- Scirpus multicalamis Bubani
- Scirpus multicaulis Sm.
- Scirpus multicaulis var. viviparus Boenn.
- Scirpus multiculmeus Bubani
Photos
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:30, 25 February 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Le Mao, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Mimi 22, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Thomas Gyselinck, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Panek, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ljaž, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Piotr Kobierski, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ljaž, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: purperlibel, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Thomas Gyselinck, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.