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|accepted_name=Luziola
|accepted_authority=Juss.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae;Poaceae tribe Oryzeae;Luziola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Oryzeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Luziola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 54
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; aquatic, usually rooted, sometimes floating; stoloniferous, sometimes mat-forming; monoecious. <b>Culms</b> 10-100+ cm, erect or prostrate, sometimes rooting at the nodes, branched, emergent or immersed. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths open, not inflated or somewhat inflated; ligules hyaline; pseudopetioles present or absent; blades flat, linear to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, glabrous, pubescent, or scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, racemes, or spikes, exserted or enclosed, staminate and pistillate spikelets usually in separate inflorescences, pistillate inflorescences at the lower or middle nodes, staminate inflorescences usually terminal; disarticulation below the spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> unisexual, laterally compressed to subterete, with 1 floret. <b>Glumes</b> absent; calluses glabrous; lemmas and paleas subequal, ovate or lanceolate, membranous or hyaline, unawned; lodicules 2. <b>Staminate</b> lemmas and paleas obscurely few- to several-veined; anthers 6-16. <b>Pistillate</b> lemmas 5-14-veined, margins not clasping the margins of the paleas, unawned; paleas 3-10-veined; styles 2, bases fused, stigmas laterally or terminally exserted, plumose. <b>Fruits</b> achenes, ovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose, beaked by the persistent style bases; pericarps shell-like, partially free from the seed, smooth or striate, crustaceous; seeds ovoid to subglobose; embryos basal; hila linear, x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ga.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Miss.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Luziola</i> is a genus of about 12 species that range from the southeastern United States to Argentina. Only <i>L. fluitans</i> is native to the Flora region; two other species have been introduced and are established. The species are emergent or immersed in shallow, fresh to brackish water.</p>
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|id=anderson1993a
|text=Anderson, L.C. and D.W. Hall. 1993. Luziola bahiensis (Poaceae): New to Florida. Sida 15:619-622
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|id=pohl2001a
|text=Pohl, R.W. and G. Davidse. 2001. Luziola. Pp. 2072-2073 in W.D. Stevens, C.U. Ulloa, A. Pool, and M. Montiel (eds.). Flora de Nicaragua, Vol. 3: Angiosperms (Pandanaceae-Zygophyllaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 2666 pp. [for vols. 1-3]
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|id=swallen1965a
|text=Swallen, J.R. 1965. The grass genus Luziola. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52:472-475
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|id=terrell1974a
|text=Terrell, E.E. and H. Robinson. 1974. Luziolinae, a new subtribe of oryzoid grasses. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101:235-245.
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==Key==
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|1
|Culms prostrate, usually immersed; leaves floating or streaming in currents, 1-5(8) cm long, usually more numerous towards the ends of the culms; pistillate inflorescences mostly included in the sheaths, only the stigmas visible
|[[Luziola fluitans|Luziola fluitans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Culms suberect to erect, from fully emergent to immersed; leaves not conspicuously floating or streaming, longer than 6 cm, basal or scattered along the culms; pistillate inflorescences all or mostly exserted, their branches and spikelets evident.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pistillate florets 3-5 mm long; achenes striate
|[[Luziola bahiensis|Luziola bahiensis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pistillate florets 2-2.5 mm long; achenes smooth
|[[Luziola peruviana|Luziola peruviana]]
|}
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name=Luziola
|author=Edward E. Terrell;
|authority=Juss.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Ga.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Miss.;Fla.
|reference=anderson1993a;pohl2001a;swallen1965a;terrell1974a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Oryzeae
|genus=Luziola
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