Flora of North America species comparison

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Pleea

pleea, rush-featherling
Habit Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, glabrous.
Leaves

2-ranked, equitant, mostly basal;

blade linear.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemose, open, bracteate, bracteolate;

bracteoles connate in epicalyx.
Flowers

arising singly;

tepals persistent, 6, in 2 somewhat dissimiliar series, distinct;

stamens 9(–10), 2 opposite each outer tepal, 1 opposite each inner;

filaments dilated basally, flattened;

anthers versatile, 2-locular, introrse, without appendages;

ovary superior, stipitate, apocarpous basally, glabrous;

intercarpellary nectary present;

styles 3.
Fruits

capsular, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, glabrous, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal.
Seeds

appendaged.
x

=15.

Pleea
Distribution
from USDA
North America
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

F. H. Utech (1978, 1979) clearly demonstrated the relationship of Pleea to Tofieldia sensu lato and reassigned the only species of the former to the latter. Morphologically, though, P. tenuifolia is a very distinctive species and, while it shares characteristics with both Tofieldia and Triantha, it is not in any way an intermediate.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 59. Author: John G. Packer.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
P. tenuifolia
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 247. (1803)
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