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Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō, bullrush, [7 ...
Typha angustifolia, mature fruiting stems, Volgograd Reservoir, Russia The species is universally accepted to be native across most of Eurasia, and in the far northwest of Africa, where it is widely distributed in temperate and subtropical regions, growing in marshes, wetlands, and along the edges of ponds and lakes. [ 2 ]
Typha latifolia is a perennial herbaceous wetland plant in the genus Typha. It is known in English as bulrush [ 4 ] [ 5 ] (sometimes as common bulrush [ 6 ] to distinguish from other species of Typha ), and in American as broadleaf cattail. [ 7 ]
Typha The Typhaceae ( / t aɪ ˈ f eɪ s i i / ) are a family of flowering plants , sometimes called the cattail family . [ 2 ] The botanical name for the family has been recognized by most taxonomists.
Typha minima is a light-loving plant and cannot tolerate shade. It grows on periodically flooded banks of slow flowing, cool and pure waters, along lake margins, in marshes, ponds and swamps, at an altitude of 0–1,000 metres (0–3,281 ft) above sea level.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Typha domingensis, known commonly as southern cattail [3] or cumbungi, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Typha. Distribution and habitat.
Typha: L Greek and Latin plant name: Poales: CS [415] Ulmaceae: Ulmus: L Latin plant name: Rosales: CS [416] Urticaceae: Urtica: L Latin plant name: Rosales: St [417] Vahliaceae: Vahlia: P Martin Vahl (1749–1804) Vahliales: Qu [418] Velloziaceae: Vellozia: P Joaquim Velloso de Miranda (1733–1815), Brazilian clergyman and plant collector ...