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Glyceria fluitans

(Water Manna Grass)

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Water Manna Grass, Floating Manna Grass, Floating Sweet Grass, Floating Sweetgrass, Water Mannagrass

Common Names in Polish:

Manna Jadalna, Trawa Manniana

Common Names in Portuguese:

Capim-Maná, Glicéria-Flutuante, Maná-Flutuante

Common Names in Russian:

Mannik Plavajuščij, манник плавающий

Description

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Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Devauxia fluitans (L.) P. Beauv. Ex Kunth • Festuca fluitans L. • Hydrochloa fluitans (L.) Hartm. • Melica fluitans (L.) Raspail • Molinia Fluitans • Molinia fluitans (L.) Hartm. • Panicularia fluitans (L.) Kuntze

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Glyceria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

G. acutiflora (Creeping Mannagrass) · G. arkansana (Arkansas Manna-Grass) · G. australis (Austral Sweet-Grass) · G. borealis (Northern Mannagrass) · G. canadensis (Canada Manna-Grass) · G. declinata (Small Manna Grass) · G. fluitans (Water Manna Grass) · G. gatineauensis (Mannagrass) · G. grandis (American Mannagrass) · G. grandis var. grandis (American Mannagrass) · G. grandis var. komarovii (American Mannagrass) · G. laxa (Limp Mannagrass) · G. leptostachya (Davy Mannagrass) · G. maxima (Manna Grass) · G. maxima maxima (Reed Mannagrass) · G. maxima 'Variegata' (Reed Manna Grass) · G. melicaria (Melic Mannagrass) · G. nubigena (Great Smoky Mountain Mannagrass) · G. obtusa (Atlantic Mannagrass) · G. occidentalis (Northwestern Manna Grass) · G. plicata (Plaited Manna Grass) · G. pulchella (Mackenzie Valley Manna Grass) · G. septentrionalis (Floating Mannagrass) · G. spectabilis subsp. variegata var. Picta (Variegated Manna Grass) · G. striata (Fowl Manna Grass) · G. striata stricta (Fowl Mannagrass) · G. striata var. striata (Fowl Mannagrass) · G. x gatineauensis (Mannagrass)

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Notes

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

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Footnotes

  1. Mean = 124.780 meters (409.383 feet), Standard Deviation = 195.240 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-04-18