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Classification
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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Phragmites Adans., Fam. Pl. 2, 34 (1763)
Description
Tall, robust perennial reeds with flat cauline leaves, hollow culms and creeping rhizomes. Ligule a membranous truncate rim, long-ciliate. Leaf-blade linear, long-tapering, deciduous. Inflorescence a large plumose panicle. Spikelets 2–6-flowered, lowest floret ♂ or Ø, others ☿; disarticulating above glumes and between lemmas; rachilla long-hairy, hardly prolonged. Glumes unequal, < lowest lemma, 3–5-nerved, membranous. Lemma 1–3-nerved, narrow-lanceolate, rounded, hyaline, glabrous, lemma of lowest floret similar to glumes, others caudate-acuminate. Palea « lemma. Lodicules 2, obovate. Callus plumose. Stamens 3.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Exotic: Casual | 1 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Adanson, M. 1763: Familles des Plantes. Vol. 2. Vincent, Paris.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
