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Perennial, glabrous; monoecious; rhizomes or stolons long; colonial, in wet soil to aquatic.
Stem: aerial stem 1, ± cylindric.
Leaf: basal and cauline, alternate, 2-ranked, spongy; sheath open; ligule 0; blade ± linear.
Inflorescence: spike-like or of spheric, unisexual heads; staminate flowers or heads distal to pistillate ones.
Flower: small, densely-packed.
Staminate flower: filaments fused proximally.
Pistillate flower: pistil 1, ovary superior, ovules 1–2(4).
Fruit: follicle, splitting in water, or drupe-like.
2 genera, ± 32 species: worldwide. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.

Key to Typhaceae

Plants generally submerged except inflorescence, or vegetative when all-submerged ( emergent to ± terrestrial); rhizomes, stolons slender.
Stem: unbranched proximal to inflorescence.
Leaf: blade flat to convex, 3-sided, or abaxially keeled.
Inflorescence: heads axillary and terminal, 2–60+; bracts leaf-like, distal reduced.
Staminate flower: stamens 2–8.
Pistillate flower: ovary chambers 1–2(4), stigmas generally 1(2–4).
Fruit: drupe-like, spongy; perianth parts attached, style and generally stigmas persistent as beak; floating, water-dispersed.
± 17 species: n temperate, w Pacific. (Probably Greek: swaddling band, for strap-shaped leaves) [Kaul 2000 FNANM 22:271–277] Fr head diam including fruit beaks; fruit body lengths except beak, stalk-like base; beak lengths incl stigmas.
Unabridged references: [Cook & Nicholls 1986 Bot Helv 96:213–267, 1987 Bot Helv 97:1–44]

Plants generally terrestrial to emergent, erect, to 75 cm, or aquatic and limp, to 1(2) m, distal parts floating.
Leaf: widest blades 5–13 mm wide, generally 3-angled or keeled proximally; on vegetative plants in deep or fast-flowing water to 2.2 m, 18 mm wide, flat, generally not keeled.
Inflorescence: emergent; main axis branches 0; staminate heads 3–7, well separated to crowded in flower; pistillate heads 1–6, proximal in axils, peduncled, distal sessile, 1.3–2.5 cm diam in fruit.
Flower: perianth parts not dark-thickened distally; stigma 1–2(2.5) mm.
Fruit: body 3.5–4 mm, 2–2.5 mm wide, ellipsoid to fusiform, tapered distally, beak 3–4 mm.
2n=30. ± Unpolluted freshwater habitats; < 2600 m. North Coast, Klamath Ranges, Outer North Coast Ranges, n&c High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, Modoc Plateau;

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