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|accepted_name=Distichlis
|accepted_authority=Raf.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Distichlis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Distichlis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 24
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually unisexual, occasionally bisexual; strongly rhizomatous and/or stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> to 60 cm, usually erect, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> conspicuously distichous; lower leaves reduced to scalelike sheaths; upper leaf sheaths strongly overlapping; ligules shorter than 1 mm, membranous, serrate; upper blades stiff, glabrous, ascending to spreading, usually equaling or exceeding the pistillate panicles. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, contracted panicles or racemes, sometimes exceeding the upper leaves. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, with 2-20 florets; disarticulation of the pistillate spikelets above the glumes and below the florets, staminate spikelets not disarticulating. <b>Glumes</b> 3-7-veined; lemmas coriaceous, staminate lemmas thinner than the pistillate lemmas, 9-11-veined, unawned; paleas 2-keeled, keels narrowly to broadly winged, serrate to toothed, sometimes with excurrent veins; anthers 3. <b>Caryopses</b> glabrous, free from the palea at maturity, brown, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;Wis.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Wyo.;N.H.;Tex.;La.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Sask.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Ala.;Miss.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ill.;Ga.;Iowa;Idaho;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;R.I.;Mont.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Distichlis</i>, a genus of about five species, grows in saline soils of the coasts and interior deserts of the Western Hemisphere and Australia. All the species grow in South America, but only one, <i>Distichlis spicata</i>, is found in North America.</p>
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|id=beetle1943b
|text=Beetle, A.A. 1943. The North American variations of Disticblis spicata. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 70:638-650.
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name=Distichlis
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Raf.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;Wis.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Wyo.;N.H.;Tex.;La.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Sask.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Ala.;Miss.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ill.;Ga.;Iowa;Idaho;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;R.I.;Mont.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Distichlis
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