Common Name: WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb from caudices, corms, stolons, rhizomes, or tubers, aquatic (+- emergent or on mud); roots fibrous, septate or not; monoecious, dioecious, or flowers bisexual. Stem: caudex short. Leaf: basal, simple, palmately veined, floating or not; submersed generally linear to ovate; emergent linear to sagittate. Inflorescence: generally scapose, umbel-, raceme-, or panicle-like; flowers, branches whorled. Flower: radial; sepals 3, generally green, generally persistent; petals 3, generally > sepals, white or pink; stamens 6--many; pistils 6--many, free or +- fused at base. Fruit: achene, generally compressed, beaked. Genera In Family: +- 12 genera, 75--100 species: especially tropics, subtropics. eFlora Treatment Author: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: WATER-PLANTAIN Habit: Perennial herb; roots not septate; flowers bisexual. Leaf: blade linear to ovate, tapered to base or petioled, base tapered to truncate, rounded, or +- lobed. Inflorescence: peduncle generally smooth; pedicels < 45 mm in fruit. Flower: receptacle +- flat; sepals generally 1--4 mm; petals entire to +- cut, white or pink; stamens generally 6; pistils many, free, in 1 whorl on margin of +- flat receptacle. Fruit: body generally 1.5--3 mm, erect, generally strongly compressed, lateral walls opaque to translucent, abaxially thin-ridged; beak < body, generally lateral. Etymology: (Greek: ancient name) Note: North American species need study. Unabridged Reference: Bjorkqvist 1968 Opera Bot 19:1--138
Alisma lanceolatum With.
NATURALIZED Leaf: 12--40 cm; blade 6--12 cm, 1--3 cm wide, generally lanceolate, base tapered. Inflorescence: generally >> leaves; pedicels generally ascending to erect. Flower: petals +- cut, pink; style +- erect, tip recurved. Fruit: lateral walls generally thin, translucent. Chromosomes: 2n=26,28. Ecology: Ponds, rice fields, slow streams; Elevation: < 500 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, n SNF, ScV; Distribution Outside California: Oregon; Chile, Australia; native to Eurasia, northern Africa. Flowering Time: Summer--fall Jepson eFlora Author: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Alisma gramineum Next taxon: Alisma triviale
Citation for this treatment: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist 2012, Alisma lanceolatum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=12461, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
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