Diagnostic ²

"Partially submerged rhizomatous perennials; rhizome creeping, clothed with brown scales; culms 30-65 cm high, partially submerged and spongy. spikelets 30 x 3.5 mm, linear-oblong, cylindric; glumes 4.5 x 4 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse, 1-nerved, concave; margin striate with red lines; bristle 3.5 mm long, pale brown; stamens 3, anthers 2.5 mm long; style base wider than ovary. Nut 2 x 1.5 mm, obovoid, obtuse, longitudinally striate; epidermal cells transversely oblong."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10209739
2. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26335534

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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