| Name | Eleocharis melanostachys C. B. Clarke |
| Authorship | C. B. Clarke |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Eleocharis R. Brown |
| Citation | 1901 Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30(2, Beibl. 68): 20 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Eleocharis melanostachys C. B. Clarke |
| Identification made in | 1967 (1), 1983 (1), 2023 (2) |