Triplasis is a genus of North American plants in the grass family. Sandgrass is a common name for plants in this genus.[2] The genus name Triplasis is Greek, meaning "threefold", referring to the triple nerved lemmas.[3]
| Triplasis | |
|---|---|
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| Triplasis purpurea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cynodonteae |
| Subtribe: | Gouiniinae |
| Genus: | Triplasis P.Beauv. |
| Type species | |
| Triplasis americana | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Description
editThe plants are slender-tufted perennials or annuals with short, slender leaf blades. Their short and open purplish panicles have few flowers and terminate the culms. Axils of the leaves can bear narrow and cleistogamous panicles.
Species of the genus have few-flowered spikelets and remote florets. The slender rachillas are terete and disarticulate above the glumes and between the florets. The narrow lemmas have three nerves and two lobes.[4]
Species
editThe genus Triplasis includes:[5]
- Triplasis americana P.Beauv.
- Triplasis purpurea (Walter) Chapm.
The genus formerly included:[citation needed]
- Triplasis setacea - Tripogon spicatus
References
edit- ^ "Triplasis P.Beauv". Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Triplasis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ Merrit Lyndon Fernald (1970). R. C. Rollins (ed.). Gray's Manual of Botany (Eighth (Centennial) - Illustrated ed.). D. Van Nostrand Company. p. 130. ISBN 0-442-22250-5.
- ^ Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The United States Department of Agriculture. 1921. p. 76.
- ^ "The Plant List search for Triplasis". The Plant List. 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2018.