TYPHACER (Brown). 31 
bracteoles. Ovary superior, 1-celled, sessile or stalked ; style simple, 
terminal, persistent; stigma unilateral, elongate; ovule solitary, 
pendulous from the apex of the cell, anatropous. Fruit sessile or 
Perennial aquatic or marsh herbs, with creeping rhizomes ; leaves alternate, 
linear or strap-shaped, sheathing at the base; veins parallel; flowers small or 
minute, sessile, bracteolate or ebracteolate, densely crowded into globose heads 
or cylindric spikes, along simple or branched axes, with or without leafy bracts 
at their base; the male inflorescence terminal. 
A small order of two genera and about 25 species, very widely dispersed. 
I. TYPHA, Linn. 
scales, or slender, clavate, curved filaments. Stamens with their 
filaments variously connate; anthers linear, basifixed, 2-celled, the 
connective produced beyond the cells; pollen simple or compound. 
emale flowers ebracteolate or mingled with slender clavate or 
fine simple or clavate hairs. Ovary superior, stalked, at least after 
fertilization; narrow, 1-celled, with a solitary pendulous ovule 3 Style 
elongate, slender, erect ; stigma linear or lanceolate. Fruit minute, 
stalked, ellipsoidal or subeylindric, with a thin membranous peri- 
carp. Seed subcylindrie or narrowly ellipsoidal, albuminous; testa 
thin; embryo axile, 
Aquatic or marsh herbs, with creeping rhizomes and erect stems ; leaves 
alternate, linear or strap-shaped, parallel-veined ; flowering-stem erect, simple, 
terminated by the dense, cylindric, superposed, unisexual flower-spikes ; bracts 
None, or linear and deciduous or caducous 
Species described about 18, but probably some are only varietal forms, widely 
distributed. 
Female flowers bracteolate ; stigmas linear 3 
Female flowers usually cbracteolate; sti 
lanceolate es ted ae ies 
one Ae ... (1) australis. 
gmas_ spathulate- ; 
3 ie (2) capensis. 
