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

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

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 (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

, rarely more than 130 cm high. A noticeable space separates the staminate (male) flowers from the

pistillate Gynoecium (; ; : gynoecia) 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 of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ...

(female) ones.

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