View source for Luziola ← Luziola You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Luziola |accepted_authority=Juss. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |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 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 54 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=anderson1993a |text=Anderson, L.C. and D.W. Hall. 1993. Luziola bahiensis (Poaceae): New to Florida. Sida 15:619-622 }}{{Treatment/Reference |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] }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=swallen1965a |text=Swallen, J.R. 1965. The grass genus Luziola. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52:472-475 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=terrell1974a |text=Terrell, E.E. and H. Robinson. 1974. Luziolinae, a new subtribe of oryzoid grasses. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101:235-245. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |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]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: 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 |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_59.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Oryzeae |genus=Luziola }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Oryzeae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Luziola.