Phragmites

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Phragmites

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 2 to several-flowered, the lowest floret staminate or neuter, its lemma elongate; glumes shorter than the florets; lemmas acuminate; rachilla densely clothed with long silky hairs.