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Fig. 95. Phragmites vulgaris (Lam.) B. S. P. (P. communis Trin.) COMMON 

 REED. — a, A spikelet: b, the outer empty glumes; c, a single floret showing 

 palea, stamens, and stigmas. 



95. PHRAGMITES Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. Spikelets loosely 3- to 7- 

 flowered; rachilla articulated above the empty glumes and between the florets, 

 clothed with long, silky hairs. The lowest floret staminate or neuter, those 

 above hermaphrodite; empty glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute, shorter than 

 the florets; flowering glume glabrous, very narrow and long acuminate pointed, 

 much exceeding the short palea. Grain free. Tall, reed-like perennial grasses 

 with stout leafy culms and large terminal panicles. 



Species 2 or 3, 1 cosmopolitan, 1 in Asia, and 1 in South America. 



