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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.
± 12 genera, 75–100 species: especially tropics, subtrop. [Haynes & Hellquist 2000 FNANM 22:7–25] —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Unabridged references: [Rogers 1983 J Arnold Arbor 64:383–420]
Previous taxon: Yucca schidigera
Next taxon: Alisma
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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