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|accepted_name=Zizaniopsis
|accepted_authority=Doll & Asch.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae;Poaceae tribe Oryzeae;Zizaniopsis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Oryzeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zizaniopsis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 52
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial or annual; aquatic, rooted and emergent; rhizomatous; monoecious. <b>Culms</b> 1-4 m, erect or decumbent, sometimes rooting at the nodes. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; sheaths open, somewhat laterally compressed; ligules scarious; pseudopetioles absent; blades flat or folded at the base, lanceolate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, staminate and pistillate spikelets on the same branches, staminate spikelets proximal, pistillate spikelets distal; disarticulation beneath the spikelets; pedicel apices cupulate. <b>Spikelets</b> unisexual, laterally compressed to subterete, lemma margins not clasping the paleas, with 1 floret. <b>Glumes</b> absent; calluses glabrous. <b>Staminate</b> lemmas membranous, 5-7-veined, acuminate or terminally awned; paleas similar to the lemmas, 3-veined; lodicules 2; anthers 6. <b>Pistillate</b> lemmas membranous, 7-veined, terminally awned; paleas similar to the lemmas, 3-veined, awned or unawned; styles 2, bases fused, stigmas terminally exserted, plumose. <b>Fruits</b> achenes, ellipsoid or obovoid, beaked by the persistent style base; pericarps shell-like, partially free from the seed, smooth, coriaceous or crustaceous; seeds oblong, subterete, or 2-angled; embryos basal; hila linear, x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Zizaniopsis</i> grows from the southern United States to Argentina. All of its five species grow in wet habitats. Only <i>Zizaniopsis miliacea</i> is native to and found in the Flora region.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fox2000a
|text=Fox, A.M. and W.T. Haller. 2000. Production and survivorship of the functional stolons of giant cutgrass, Zizaniopsis miliacea (Poaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 87:811-818
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|id=mcvaugh1983a
|text=McVaugh, R. 1983. Flora Novo-Galiciana: A Descriptive Account of the Vascular Plants of Western Mexico, vol. 14. Gramineae (series ed. W.R. Anderson). University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 436 pp.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=terrell1974a
|text=Terrell, E.E. and H. Robinson. 1974. Luziolinae, a new subtribe of oryzoid grasses. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101:235-245.
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name=Zizaniopsis
|author=Edward E. Terrell;
|authority=Doll & Asch.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|reference=fox2000a;mcvaugh1983a;terrell1974a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Oryzeae
|genus=Zizaniopsis
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