Cladium P. Browne (Q3439)

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Cladium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cladieae
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Cladium P. Browne
Cladium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cladieae

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    taxon/id/Cladium P. Browne
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    Cladium P. Browne
    Cladium
    P. Browne
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Twig-rush (English)
    sawgrass (English)
    marisque (English)
    North America
    Mexico
    West Indies
    Central America
    South America
    Eurasia
    Africa
    and Australia
    Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, rhizomatous or stoloniferous.
    Culms solitary or not, terete or rounded-trigonous, usually 70+ cm.
    blades flat to involute.
    Inflorescences terminal or some lateral, corymbose or subcapitate, conspicuously branched;
    spikelets 100–1000+;
    involucral-bracts 3–4+, spreading, leaflike.
    Spikelets: scales 5–6, spirally arranged, proximal 1–3 scales empty, distal 3–4 scales each subtending flower.
    Flowers bisexual or staminate;
    styles linear, 3-fid, base persistent, somewhat thickened.