Luziola peruviana |
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Peruvian watergrass |
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Habit | Plants stoloniferous, fully or mostly emergent. |
Culms | 10-40 cm, suberect, branching, fully or mostly emergent. |
Leaves | mostly basal or scattered along the culms, not conspicuously floating or streaming in the current; sheaths glabrous or ciliate; ligules to 5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate; blades 3-30 cm long, 0.5-4 mm wide, glabrous, sometimes scabridulous. |
Inflorescences | panicles. |
Achenes | 1-1.3 mm, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, lustrous. |
Staminate | panicles 1-3 cm, terminal, with 10-25 spikelets; staminate florets 3.5-8 mm, caducous; lemmas lanceolate, 5-veined; paleas similar, 3-veined; anthers 6, 2-5 mm. |
Pistillate | panicles to 7 cm, arising from the lower to middle nodes of the culms, partially exserted from the sheaths, with 10-25 spikelets; branches filiform, spreading to reflexed; pistillate florets 2-2.5 mm, caducous; lemmas 7-14-veined, erose to acuminate or caudate; paleas similar to the lemmas, 5-10-veined; stigmas 2-3 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Luziola peruviana |
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Distribution |
FL; LA; TX |
Discussion | Luziola peruviana has been found at scattered locations from Texas to Florida. It is native to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, and grows in wet places and shallow water along streams and lakes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 55. |
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Name authority | J.F. Gmel. |
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