Key to Cortaderia

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(For a list of species in Cortaderia, use the above link.)

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1. Sheath densely hairy; 

panicle 

1. In flowering plants excluding Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, and some other groups, a branched inflorescence in which the basal or lateral flowers (or some of them) open before the terminal or central flowers on any axis. 2. In Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, and some other groups, a panicle-like inflorescence is one in which at least some of the inflorescence units (e.g., heads in Asteraceae; spikelets in Cyperaceae and Poaceae), instead of individual flowers, are attached (stalked or unstalked) to branches and not directly to the main axis of the inflorescence and in which floral development may or may not proceed as in 1.

well-elevated above foliage; inflorescence stalk 4–5 × inflorescence length ..... C. jubata

1' Sheath glabrous to sparsely hairy; panicle at most only slightly elevated above foliage; inflorescence stalk 2–3 × inflorescence length ..... C. selloana

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