Typha latifolia L., Sp. Pl. 971 1753. (syn: Massula latifolia (L.) Dulac; Typha ambigua Schur ex Rohrb.; Typha angustifolia var. inaequalis Kronf.; Typha angustifolia var. media Kronf.; Typha angustifolia var. sonderi Kronf.; Typha crassa Raf.; Typha elatior Boreau, nom. illeg.; Typha elatior Raf., nom. illeg.; Typha elongata (Dudley) Dudley; Typha engelmannii A.Br. ex Rohrb.; Typha intermedia Schur; Typha latifolia var. ambigua Sond.; Typha latifolia var. angustifolia Hausskn.; Typha latifolia f. divisa Louis-Marie; Typha latifolia var. elata Kronf.; Typha latifolia var. elatior Graebn.; Typha latifolia var. elongata Dudley; Typha latifolia subsp. eulatifolia Graebn., not validly publ.; Typha latifolia var. gracilis Godr.; Typha latifolia var. obconica Tkachik; Typha latifolia var. remotiuscula (Schur) Simonk.; Typha latifolia var. typica Rothm.; Typha major Curtis; Typha media Pollini, nom. illeg.; Typha palustris Bubani, nom. superfl.; Typha pendula Fisch. ex Sond.; Typha remotiuscula Schur; Typha spathulifolia Kronf.); Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Colombia, W. Bolivia to S. South America, Nigeria to Kenya as per POWO; Afghanistan; Alabama; Alaska; Albania; Alberta; Algeria; Altay; Amur; Argentina
Northeast; Argentina Northwest; Arizona; Arkansas; Austria; Baleares; Baltic
States; Belarus; Belgium; British Columbia; Bulgaria; Buryatiya; California;
Central European Rus; China North-Central; China South-Central; China Southeast;
Chita; Colorado; Connecticut; Corse; Czechoslovakia; Delaware; Denmark;
Djibouti; East Aegean Is.; East European Russia; Finland; Florida; France;
Georgia; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Hawaii; Honduras; Hungary; Idaho;
Illinois; Indiana; Inner Mongolia; Iowa; Iran; Ireland; Irkutsk; Italy; Japan;
Kamchatka; Kansas; Kazakhstan; Kentucky; Kenya; Khabarovsk; Kirgizstan; Korea;
Krasnoyarsk; Krym; Kuril Is.; Lebanon-Syria; Louisiana; Maine; Manchuria;
Manitoba; Maryland; Masachusettes; Mexico Central; Mexico Gulf; Mexico
Northeast; Mexico Northwest; Mexico Southeast; Mexico Southwest; Michigan;
Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Morocco; Nebraska; Netherlands;
Nevada; New Brunswick; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New South Wales;
New York; Newfoundland; Nigeria; North Carolina; North Caucasus; North Dakota;
North European Russi; Northwest European R; Northwest Territorie; Norway; Nova
Scotia; Nunavut; Ohio; Oklahoma; Ontario; Oregon; Pakistan; Palestine; Paraguay;
Pennsylvania; Poland; Portugal; Primorye; Prince Edward I.; Qubec; Rhode I.;
Romania; Rwanda; Sakhalin; Sardegna; Saskatchewan; Sicilia; South Carolina;
South Dakota; South European Russi; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tadzhikistan;
Tasmania; Tennessee; Texas; Tibet; Transcaucasus; Tunisia; Turkey;
Turkey-in-Europe; Turkmenistan; Tuva; Uganda; Ukraine; Utah; Uzbekistan;
Vermont; Victoria; Virginia; Washington; West Siberia; West Virginia; Wisconsin;
Wyoming; Xinjiang; Yakutskiya; Yugoslavia; Yukon as per Catalogue of Life; Typha latifolia Linn. Easily differentiated from T. angustifolia/T. domingensis in leaves broader than 1 cm (less than 1 cm broad in other two) and male portion of spike contiguous/not separated from female portion (distinctly separated in other two) and absence of bracteoles. Photographed from Nagin Lake, Kashmir, 4-8-2011 |