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Zizania L.

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Zizania L., Sp. Pl. 991 (1753)
Zizania L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
991
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Zizania L.
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Zizania

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Zizania

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Zizania L.

Tall, aquatic, monoecious annuals or perennials, sometimes with creeping rhizomes. Leaves flat. Inflorescence a large, terminal panicle with lower branches spreading or ascending and bearing pendent, early deciduous ♂ spikelets, upper branches ascending to erect at maturity, bearing ascending, tardily deciduous ♀ spikelets. Spikelets 1-flowered, falling entire from the pedicel; lower lemmas suppressed, rachilla modified to a callus-like structure at base of floret. Glumes obsolete, a small, collar-like ridge at tip of pedicel. ♂ spikelets: lemma membranous, 5-7-nerved, acuminate to shortly awned; palea ≈ lemma, 3-nerved; stamens 6. ♀ spikelets: lemma chartaceous, 3-nerved, tapering to a long slender awn; palea 2-keeled, the keels tightly clasped by lemma margins. Lodicules 2. Styles fused, stigma narrowly plumose. Caryopsis linear; embryo ½ length caryopsis to ≈ caryopsis; hilum ≈ caryopsis. Fig. 3.

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Zizania L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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0a5854ab-e17f-4e5e-9801-f1dedb8731ea
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1 January 2000
27 January 2014
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