''Typha shuttleworthii'' is a species of

cattail ''Typha'' is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush or reedmace, in American English as reed, cattail, or punks, in ...

found in southern

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as well as in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

.Kozlowska, K., A. Nobis, & M. Nobis. 2011. Typha shuttleworthii (Typhaceae), new for Poland. Polish Botanical Journal 56(2): 299-305.
/ref> ''Typha shuttleworthii'' is very similar to ''T. latifolia'' and has long been considered

conspecific Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species. Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organis ...

with that species. More recent authors have, however, regarded it as a separate species. It differs from ''T. latifolia'' in that the male inflorescence is less than half the length of the female

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

, as well as having shorter anthers, smaller

seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiospe ...

s, and narrower leaves.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q12042928 shuttleworthii Freshwater plants Flora of Europe Flora of Iran Flora of Turkey Taxa named by Otto Wilhelm Sonder