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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
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Families
Paspalum L.
Glume
1; the 1
sterile
lemma
similar in size and shape to the
glume
(Fig. 50 b)
Paspalum
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Inflorescence
bifurcating at the summit into 2 (3) equal racemes. Plants with creeping rhizomes and/or stolons
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Glume
and
sterile
lemma
pubescent
. Spikelets 2–3 mm long. Racemes 2–7 cm long. Plants up to 50 cm high,
decumbent
or floating, with stolons and rhizomes. Widespread. Wet places and in water. Fl. summer. Water Couch
Paspalum distichum
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Glume
and
sterile
lemma
glabrous