Juncaginaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Juncaginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Family Description - Fls small and inconspicuous, perfect or seldom unisexual, anemophilous, borne in terminal, bractless spikes or racemes; perianth of (4)6 similar and distinct tep in 2 cycles, or sometimes 3 in a single cycle, or of a single tep, or wanting; stamens (1–)6(8), the very short filament generally adnate to the base of the tep; anthers extrorse; pollen in monads, inaperturate; gynoecium of 3, 4, or most commonly 6 carpels, these generally adnate to a central axis from which they later separate, each with its own stigma sessile or on a short style; ovules solitary in each carpel or locule, mostly ventral-basal; individual frs usually basically follicular; endosperm wanting; embryo straight, with a single cotyledon; herbs, mostly semiaquatic and emergent, commonly cyanogenic, most spp. perennial and rhizomatous; lvs mainly or wholly basal, with an evident ligule at the juncture of the slender blade and open sheath, or the elongate lf not divided into blade and sheath. 5/20.
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Common Names
The arrow-grass family