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Sawgrass flower and spikelet morphology
The number, arrangement and sex of flowers in spikelets are important characters in sedge systematics but have been poorly described for sawgrass. Richards (pp. 361-367) reports the structure and phenology of spikelets from south Florida sawgrass populations and shows that the two-flowered spikelets are determinate. This is in contrast to current descriptions for all but the most primitive sedges.
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