Eriocaulon miserrimum Ruhland

Eriocaulon miserrimum Ruhl. Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 30. 1925
Plants very dwarf; stems greatly abbreviated; leaves recurved, linear, 3-11 mm. long, about 0.6 mm. wide at the middle, plainly narrowed from base to apex, acute, fenestrately 3or 4-nerved, glabrous; peduncles aggregate, 3-20, very slender or filiform, 2-3 cm. long, twisted, 3-6-costate, glabrous; sheaths rather loose, 8-12 mm. long, glabrous, obliquely split at apex; heads stramineous, at first obconic, finally hemispheric, few-flowered, 0.8-2 mm. in diameter, glabrous; involucral bractlets membranous, the outer ones stramineous, the inner ones subnigrescent, all obovate, concave, acute, glabrous; receptacle glabrate; receptacular bractlets few or none, narrow, subnigrescent, otherwise similar to the involucral ones; staminate florets: sepals 2, olivaceous at apex, narrowly subspatulate-oblong, acute, glabrous; corolla-lobes subobsolete; anthers 4, black; pistillate florets: sepals 2, rather thick, olivaceous, navicular, broadly winged-carinate, glabrous; petals 2, hyaline at base, olivaceous at apex, oblongspatulate, rather obtuse, glabrous; stigmas 2.
Type locality: In a moist locality along the road from Santa Ana to Santa Barbara, Isle ot Pines, Cuba (Ekman 11956).
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.