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|accepted_name=Arundo
|accepted_authority=L.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Arundinoideae;Poaceae tribe Arundineae;Arundo
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Arundinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Arundineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arundo]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, rhizomes short, usually more than 1 cm thick. <b>Culms</b> 2-10 m tall, 1-3.5 cm thick, usually erect, occasionally pendant from cliffs; nodes glabrous; internodes hollow. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, conspicuously distichous, glabrous; sheaths open, longer than the internodes; ligules membranous, shortly ciliate; blades flat or folded, margins scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, plumose, silvery to purplish. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, with 1-several florets; rachilla segments glabrous; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets. <b>Glumes</b> longer than the florets, 3-5-veined; lemmas pilose, hairs not papillose-based, 3-7-veined, apices entire or minutely awned; paleas shorter than the lemmas, 2-veined; anthers 3. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Nev.;Va.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Md.;Okla.;Utah;Mo.;Kans.;Miss.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Arundo</i>, a genus of three species, grows throughout the tropical and warm-temperate regions of the world. Only one species has been introduced to the Western Hemisphere.</p><!--
--><p><i>Arundo</i> is similar to, but usually larger than, <i>Phragmites</i>, a much more common genus in North America. In addition, <i>Arundo</i>, but not <i>Phragmites</i>, has a wedge-shaped, light to dark brown area at the base of its blades.</p>
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name=Arundo
|author=Kelly W. Allred;
|authority=L.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Nev.;Va.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Md.;Okla.;Utah;Mo.;Kans.;Miss.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Arundinoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Arundineae
|genus=Arundo
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