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|accepted_name=Triplasis
|accepted_authority=P. Beauv.
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Triplasis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Triplasis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 41
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, occasionally rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 14-100 cm, ascending to erect; nodes pubescent to hirsute. <b>Sheaths</b> open; auricles absent; ligules of hairs or membranous and ciliate; blades 1-5 mm wide, flat or involute. <b>Primary</b> inflorescences terminal, open panicles, with few spikelets, exerted or partially included in the upper sheath, apices exceeding the upper leaf blades, axillary panicles sometimes also present; cleistogamous inflorescences also present in the upper sheaths. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, purplish, with 2-5 florets; sterile florets above the fertile florets; rachillas prolonged; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath the florets and, subsequently, at the cauline nodes. <b>Glumes</b> equal or unequal, shorter than the first lemma, 1-veined, keeled; calluses hairy; lemmas 3-veined, veins villous, apices bilobed to incised, midveins sometimes extending into an awn, awns to 11 mm; paleas bowed-out, keels hairy, distal hairs 0.5-2 mm, longer than those below; lodicules 2, truncate; anthers 3, yellow or reddish-purple; stigmas pink to purple. <b>Caryopses</b> dorsiventrally compressed, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;Wis.;Fla.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Ont.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;R.I.;Miss.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Triplasis is an American genus of two species that is probably related to Tridens. The disarticulating culm, which helps disperse the cleistogenes, aids in distinguishing Triplasis from other genera.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lemmas with lobes 4.5-8 mm long, tapering to acute tips; lemma awns 5-11 mm long; culm internodes puberulent to pilose
|[[Triplasis americana|Triplasis americana]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lemmas with lobes about 1 mm long, rounded; lemma awns less than 2 mm long; culm internodes glabrous
|[[Triplasis purpurea|Triplasis purpurea]]
|}
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name=Triplasis
|author=Stephan L. Hatch;
|authority=P. Beauv.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;Wis.;Fla.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Ont.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;R.I.;Miss.;Oreg.
|reference=None
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|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/314eb390f968962f596ae85f506b4b3db8683b1b/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_64.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Triplasis
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