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|accepted_name=Pleea
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 247. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Rush-featherling
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Pleea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pleea]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Auguste Plée, 1787–1825, French traveller in the New World
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 11, 56, 58, 60
|treatment_page=page 59
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2-ranked, equitant, mostly basal; blade linear. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemose, open, bracteate, bracteolate; bracteoles connate in epicalyx. <b>Flowers</b> arising singly; tepals persistent, 6, in 2 somewhat dissimiliar series, distinct; stamens 9(–10), 2 opposite each outer tepal, 1 opposite each inner; filaments dilated basally, flattened; anthers versatile, 2-locular, introrse, without appendages; ovary superior, stipitate, apocarpous basally, glabrous; intercarpellary nectary present; styles 3. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, glabrous, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> appendaged. <b>x</b> =15.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>F. H. Utech (1978, 1979) clearly demonstrated the relationship of <i>Pleea</i> to <i>Tofieldia</i> sensu lato and reassigned the only species of the former to the latter. Morphologically, though, <i>P. tenuifolia</i> is a very distinctive species and, while it shares characteristics with both <i>Tofieldia</i> and <i>Triantha</i>, it is not in any way an intermediate.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=utech1978a
|text=Utech, F. H. 1978. Floral vascular anatomy of Pleea tenuifolia Michx. (Liliaceae-Tofieldieae) and its reassignment to Tofieldia. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 47: 423–454.
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|id=utech1979b
|text=Utech, F. H. 1979. Karyotype analysis, palynology, and external seed morphology of Tofieldia tenuifolia (Michx.) Utech (Liliaceae-Tofieldieae). Ann. Carnegie Mus. 48: 171–184.
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name=Pleea
|author=John G. Packer
|authority=Michaux
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=utech1978a;utech1979b
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
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|genus=Pleea
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