Triplasis
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Triplasis is a genus of North American plants in the grass family. Sandgrass is a common name for plants in this genus.[2] The genus name Triplasis is Greek, meaning "threefold", referring to the triple nerved lemmas.[3]
Description
The plants are slender-tufted perennials or annuals with short, slender leaf blades. Their short and open purplish panicles have few flowers and terminate the culms. Axils of the leaves can bear narrow and cleistogamous panicles.
Species of the genus have few-flowered spikelets and remote florets. The slender rachillas are terete and disarticulate above the glumes and between the florets. The narrow lemmas have three nerves and two lobes.[4]
Species
The genus Triplasis includes:[5]
- Triplasis americana P.Beauv.
- Triplasis purpurea (Walter) Chapm.
The genus formerly included:[citation needed]
- Triplasis setacea - Tripogon spicatus
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Triplasis P.Beauv". Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Merrit Lyndon Fernald (1970). R. C. Rollins (ed.). Gray's Manual of Botany (Eighth (Centennial) - Illustrated ed.). D. Van Nostrand Company. p. 130. ISBN 0-442-22250-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The United States Department of Agriculture. 1921. p. 76.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Plant List search for Triplasis". The Plant List. 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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