Flora of North America species comparison

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Glyceria sect. Striatae
Habit Plants perennial.
Sheaths

not or weakly compressed, midvein often conspicuous distally.
Panicles

0.8-30 cm wide;

branches usually ascending to strongly divergent or drooping, sometimes appressed.
Spikelets

oval in side view, lengths 1-4 times widths, laterally compressed.
Caryopses

usually obovoid, sometimes ovoid;

hila punctate or linear.
Lemmas

with apices acute or obtuse to rounded, prow-shaped;

paleas slightly shorter to slightly longer than the lemmas, keels well-developed, tips strongly incurved, apices narrowly notched between the keels;

lodicules free;

anthers 2.

Glyceria sect. Striatae
Discussion

Members of Glyceria sect. Striatae grow along streams, in swamps, and in shallow, fresh water. The section includes seven species, all of which are native to the Flora region.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 24, p. 73.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Meliceae > Glyceria
Subordinate taxa
Name authority G.L. Church
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