[FTEA]
Typhaceae, D. M. Napper. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Morphology General Habit
- Stout glabrous marsh herbs with sympodial branched rhizomes covered by distichous cataphylls and having terminal erect shoots
- Morphology Leaves
- Lower leaves transitional, short-bladed; upper leaves with a long sheath closely enveloping the stem, often auricled at the junction with the blade, and a linear obtuse or acute blade gradually widening from a narrow subpetiolar base, semi-cylindric to lenticular in section, sometimes keeled beneath
- sex Male
- Male inflorescence apical, dense; flowers reduced to a pedicellate group of 2–4(–7) stamens with the filaments fused below; anthers dithecous, oblong, with the connective produced above; bracteoles filiform, spathulate or spathulate-laciniate; pollen grains shed singly or in tetrads
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Female inflorescence a single spike beneath the ♂, remote from it or contiguous, rarely with 1 or 2 additional ♀ spikes remote from each other beneath the first; flowers with the perigonous hairs and bracteoles of similar length, the styles conspicuously longer; bracteoles filiform, broadening into an expanded ovate or spathulate lamina; carpodia about as long as the bracteoles Male inflorescence apical, dense; flowers reduced to a pedicellate group of 2–4(–7) stamens with the filaments fused below; anthers dithecous, oblong, with the connective produced above; bracteoles filiform, spathulate or spathulate-laciniate; pollen grains shed singly or in tetrads
- sex Female
- Female inflorescence a single spike beneath the ♂, remote from it or contiguous, rarely with 1 or 2 additional ♀ spikes remote from each other beneath the first; flowers with the perigonous hairs and bracteoles of similar length, the styles conspicuously longer; bracteoles filiform, broadening into an expanded ovate or spathulate lamina; carpodia about as long as the bracteoles
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Follicle narrowly ellipsoid; seed fusiform.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1–4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Distribution
- Some 15 species, almost cosmopolitan, in and around fresh or brackish water.
- Note
- Description as for the family.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sinai, Society Is., Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Chagos Archipelago, Chatham Is., Comoros, Hawaii, Labrador
- Typha albida Riedl
- Typha alekseevii Mavrodiev
- Typha androssovii Krasnova
- Typha angustifolia L.
- Typha × argoviensis Hausskn. ex Asch. & Graebn.
- Typha austro-orientalis Mavrodiev
- Typha azerbaijanensis Hamdi & Assadi
- Typha × bavarica Graebn.
- Typha biarmica Krasnova
- Typha capensis (Rohrb.) N.E.Br.
- Typha caspica Pobed.
- Typha changbaiensis M.Jiang Wu & Y.T.Zhao
- Typha davidiana (Kronf.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Typha domingensis Pers.
- Typha elephantina Roxb.
- Typha ephemeroida Krasnova
- Typha × gezei Rothm.
- Typha × glauca Godr.
- Typha grossheimii Pobed.
- Typha incana Kapit. & Dyukina
- Typha joannis Mavrodiev
- Typha kalatensis Assadi & Hamdi
- Typha kamelinii Krasnova
- Typha komarovii Krasnova
- Typha kozlovii Krasnova
- Typha krasnovae Doweld
- Typha latifolia L.
- Typha laxmannii Lepech.
- Typha linnaei Mavrodiev & Kapit.
- Typha lugdunensis P.Chabert
- Typha minima Funck
- Typha orientalis C.Presl
- Typha paludosa Krasnova
- Typha × provincialis A.Camus
- Typha przewalskii Skvortsov
- Typha shuttleworthii W.D.J.Koch & Sond.
- Typha sinantropica Krasnova
- Typha sistanica De Marco & Dinelli
- Typha × smirnovii Mavrodiev
- Typha × soligorskiensis D.Dubovik
- Typha subulata Crespo & Pérez-Mor.
- Typha × suwensis T.Shimizu
- Typha tichomirovii Mavrodiev
- Typha turcomanica Pobed.
- Typha tzvelevii Mavrodiev
- Typha valentinii Mavrodiev
- Typha varsobica Krasnova
- Typha × volgensis Krasnova
- Typha yakutii Krasnova & Chemeris
Typha L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 971 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- F.T.A. 8: 135
- Graebner in Engl., Pflanzenr. 4, 8 Typhac.: 8-18 (1900).
- Sp. Pl. 971 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 418 (1754)
- Rohrbach in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 11: 67–104 (1870)
- Schnizlein, Typhaceae(1845)
- Sp. Pl.: 971 (1753)
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Flora of Somalia
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