78. Puccinellia Parl. (alkali grass)
About 25 species, North America, Europe, Asia.
Puccinellia has been included in Glyceria R. Br. (tribe
Meliceae) traditionally by some authors, but it differs in its open leaf
sheaths and sessile stigmas, among other morphological and molecular characters
(Church, 1952; Davis, 1991).