''Paepalanthus'' is a genus of plants in the family

Eriocaulaceae The Eriocaulaceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales, commonly known as the pipewort family. The family is large, with about 1207 known species described in seven genera. They are widely distributed, with the ce ...

. It has about 300-400 species, native mostly to tropical

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, with a few species in

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/ref>Trovó, M. & Takeo Sano, P. (2010). Taxonomic survey of ''Paepalanthus'' section ''Diphyomene'' (Eriocaulaceae). Phytotaxa 14: 49-55.

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Paepalanthus bromelioides ''Paepalanthus bromelioides'' is a species in the flowering plant family Eriocaulaceae. This family is placed in the Poales, close to the Bromeliaceae, whose morphology this genus shares. ''Paepalanthus bromelioides'' is native to Cerrado, ...

'' *'' Paepalanthus celsus''

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