Eriocaulon cubense Ruhland

Eriocaulon cubense Ruhl. Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 29. 1925
vStems very short; leaves thin-membranous or subpellucid, linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, mostly about 0.8 mm. wide at the middle, acute, fenestrately 3-nerved, glabrous; peduncles slender, 1 or 2, 4—1 1.5 cm. long, 5or 6-costate, scarcely or but slightly twisted, glabrous; sheaths rather close-fitting, about equaling the leaves, 2-2.7 cm. long, glabrous, obliquely split, the blade short, erect, and acuminate; heads at first hemispheric, finally subglobose, 4-5 mm. in diameter at maturity, white-villose; involucral bractlets pale-flavidulous, obovate, obtuse, pilose at apex on the back; receptacle glabrous; receptacular bractlets whitish, cuneate, acute, densely pilose above the middle on the back; staminate florets: sepals 2, pale-gray at apex, hyaline below, ovate, concave, acute or blunt, scarcely 1 mm. long, long-pilose at apex on the back; petals 2, minute, equal, non-glanduliferous; anthers 4, black; pistillate florets: sepals 2, whitish, navicular, broadly crested-carinate on the back, long-pilose at apex; petals 2, white, spatulate, rounded or acute, glabrous, non-glanduliferous; style long; stigmas 2, short; ovary 2-ovulate.
Type locality: In alkali Hals or on white sand, Santa Barbara, Isle of Pines, Cuba (Ekfnan 206i
DISTRIBUTION; Known only from the type collection.

Eriocaulon cubense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cỏ dùi trống. Loài này được Ruhland mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1925.