Triglochin
concinna var. concinna #
Annual
or perennial herbs, with rhizomes and scapes.
Leaves mostly basal, linear, sheathing at the base.
Flowers small, in terminal bractless spikes or racemes or some borne
singly in the axils of the leaves; flowers perfect or imperfect, anemophilous.
Perianth segments 3 or 6, in 1 or 2 series, greenish or reddish, or
perianth none. Stamens 6, 4 or 3 or
1; anthers subsessile, 2-celled, extrorse.
Carpels 6, 4, or 3 or 1, superior, free or connate; style short to
absent; ovule 1, basal. Fruit cylindrical to obovoid; seeds without endosperm.
Several genera, mostly in cooler parts of both hemispheres.
(Munz, Flora So. Calif. 916).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family:
Triglochin
concinna var. concinna #