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| Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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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]
Perennial; roots not septate; flowers bisexual.
Leaf: blade linear to ovate, tapered to base or petioled, base tapered to rounded.
Inflorescence: peduncle generally smooth.
Flower: receptacle ± flat; sepals generally 3.5–6 mm; petals cut, white to pink; stamens 6; pistils 6–15, in 1 whorl, ± fused at base, ovules 1[2].
Fruit: generally ± spreading, laterally compressed, sides generally opaque, abaxially ± rounded, ribbed; beak >= body, generally terminal.
± 5 species: North America, Eur, Australia. (Greek: ancient name)
Unabridged references: [Vuille 1987 Plant Syst Evol 157:63–71]
Previous taxon: Alisma triviale
Next taxon: Damasonium californicum
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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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates. | Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.
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