Description
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Herbs; nodes with 2 rows of 3--5 roots. Leaves: sheath 6.5--55 cm, margins overlapping; blade to 2 m ´ 0.5--1.5 mm, margins entire, apex notched to rounded or slightly apiculate; veins 3. Generative shoots 50--60 cm, nodes 4--6, proximal 2 nodes each with 1 leaf, sterile, distal 2--4 nodes each bearing 1 leaf and 1--5 spathes. Inflorescences: peduncles 8--45 ´ 1--2 mm; staminate bract 2.5--4.3 ´ 2--2.7 mm; pistillate bract 3.5--6 ´ 1--1.5 mm, base distally narrowed, apex obtuse to acute. Fruits 2.8--3.2 ´ 2.9--3.5 mm.
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Distribution
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B.C.; Calif., Oreg.; Mexico (Baja California).
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering and fruiting spring--fall.
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Comprehensive Description
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Phyllospadix torreyi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14 : 303. 1879
Stems simple or branched, flat, 3 dm. or more long ; leaves all submerged, linear, flat when very young, in maturity always complicate or truly terete, 0.8-2 m. long, 0.7-1.5 mm. wide, the apex obtuse or acute, the base sheathing ; primary nerves 1-3, or sometimes the leaf-blades nerveless ; inflorescence a curved or straight spadix, the spathe almost enclosing the flowers and splitting after anthesis ; peduncles cauline, mostly branched, in 2's or 3's, mostly 3-14 cm. long, and with numerous fugacious bracts, the bracts scarious, obtuse or acute, 1-3.5 cm. long; staminate flowers numerous, in 2 rows, consisting of sessile, 1celled anthers ; pistillate flowers of sessile ovaries ; mature fruit 1-seeded, flask-shaped, 2-3 mm. long, beaked by the persistent style at the apex, deeply cordate-sagittate at the base, with 2 projecting wings, and sometimes winged on the back ; seeds of a reddish tint* Numerous sterile flowers occur.
Type locality : Santa Barbara, California.
Distribution : Along the coast of California.
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- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Phyllospadix torreyi: Brief Summary
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Phyllospadix torreyi, Torrey's surfgrass, is a plant species found along the Pacific Coasts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California and Baja California (including Guadalupe Island). It grows in salt marshes in the intertidal zones.
Phyllospadix torreyi is a grass-like plant with toothless leaves up to 60 cm long.
Phyllospadix torreyi is the obligate host to the epiphytes, Melobesia mediocris and Smithora naiadum.
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