Eriocaulon faberi Ruhland

Leaves linear, 4--12 cm, (0.6--)2--4 mm wide at middle, veins 5--15. Scapes numerous, (7--)20--35(--50) cm, 4- or 5-ribbed; sheath 3--7 cm; receptacle densely villous; heads straw-colored, subglobose to conical-cylindric, 4(--7) × 4--6 mm; involucral bracts straw-colored, oblong to ovate, (2--)3--4.5 × 1.2--2.2 mm, adaxially shortly deciduous hairy at margin, abaxially glabrous; floral bracts obovate to oblanceolate, hairy abaxially and at margin. Male flowers: sepals spathelike, 1.5--2.2 mm, abaxially with a few (and apex with numerous) white, clavate hairs, apex truncate or 3-lobed; petals 3, broadly ovate, small white hairy at apex, gland black; anthers black. Female flowers: sepals spathelike, 1.5--2 mm, abaxially sparsely hairy, basally connate, margin long hairy, apex shortly hairy, 3-lobed; petals 3, clavate, fleshy, villous adaxially and with many short hairs at apex, gland brown to black; ovary 1-loculed; stigma 1. Seeds subglobose to ellipsoid, ca. 0.9 mm; testa reticulate, prickles 1 per cell, T-shaped. Fl. and fr. Jun--Nov.

* Rice fields, marshlands, valleys. Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

Eriocaulon faberi là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cỏ dùi trống. Loài này được Ruhland mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1903.

江南谷精草（学名：Eriocaulon faberi），为谷精草科谷精草属下的一个植物种。