''Typha laxmannii'', the graceful cattail, is a

wetland A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The p ...

plant species, widespread across Europe and Asia.Flora of China vol 23 p 162.
/ref>Lepechin, Ivan Ivanovic. Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. Praecedit Historia ejusdem Academiae 12: 84, 335, t. 4. 1801. ''Typha laxmannii'' is not as tall as many of the other species in the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

, rarely more than 130 cm high. A noticeable space separates the

staminate The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...

(male) flowers from the

pistillate Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl (botany), whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or m ...

(female) ones.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q165439 laxmannii Aquatic plants Flora of Europe Flora of temperate Asia Flora of Pakistan Flora of West Himalaya