Typhaceae

(Cattail Family)

Habit

perennial, semiaquatic herbs

Leaves

blades flat

Flowers

aggregated in double spadix; the male spadix terminal the female lower--each made up of thousands of tiny flowers with scale-like sepals and no petals.

Gynoecium

of 1 carpel; ovary superior with 1 locule and 1 apical ovule

Fruit

1-seeded follicle (achene in some books because of tardy dehiscence,i.e. after dispersal)

Diversity

1 genus/12 spp.

Distribution

cosmopolitan

Economics

Note

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