Family - Indian Society of Weed Science

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Typha angustata Bory & Chaubard.
A tall, robust perennial march plant.
Common Name : Southern cattail
Family : Typhaceae
Usually 1.5-3 m high with a creeping, branched
rhizome.
Distichous, semicylindrical above the leaf
sheath, spongy up to 3 m long and 2-3.5 cm
wide, often longer than the flowering stalk,
narrower above the sheath.
Minute, borne on cylindrical spikes, 0.8-2.2 cm
in diameter, the male and female spikes often
widely separated on the stalk, sometimes on
different plant; male spikes 25-50 cm long,
consisting of deep-yellow anthers; female
spikes 22-38 cm long, pale brown.
Fusiform, dehiscent by an apical lid.
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