Pleea

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pleea

1818 illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Alismatales
Family:  | Tofieldiaceae
Genus:  | Pleea
Michx.
Species:  |

P. tenuifolia

Binomial name
Pleea tenuifolia

Michx.

Synonyms[1]

* Ennearina Raf.
* Tofieldia tenuifolia (Michx.) Utech
* Ennearina pleiana Raf.

Pleea is a small genus of flowering plants described as a genus in 1803.[2][3][4] There is only one known species, Pleea tenuifolia, the rush featherling,[5] native to the southeastern United States (Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina).[1][6][7]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=284435.
2. ↑ Michaux, André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 247–248 in Latin
3. ↑ Michaux, André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana 1: plate 25 line drawing as illustration
4. ↑ "Tropicos | Name - Pleea Michx.". http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011169.
5. ↑ "Plants Profile for Pleea tenuifolia (rush featherling)". http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PLTE3.
6. ↑ "Pleea tenuifolia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=220010641.
7. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map Image

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