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Zannichellia
HORNED-PONDWEED

Higher Taxonomy
Family: ZannichelliaceaeView Description 

Common Name: HORNED-PONDWEED FAMILY
Habit: [Annual] perennial herb from slender, creeping rhizome, glabrous, aquatic, submersed; monoecious. Stem: thread-like, weak. Leaf: alternate to +- whorled, linear; stipules fused to blade or free, sheath-like. Inflorescence: axillary, generally +- cyme, sessile, bract 1, cup-like; staminate flowers below pistillate. Flower: unisexual [bisexual]. Staminate Flower: perianth parts 0 (or 3, minute, scale-like); stamens 1 (or possibly 2--3 but then united, appearing as 1). Pistillate Flower: perianth parts 0; pistils (1)4--5(9), ovaries superior, 1-chambered, 1-ovuled, 1-styled. Fruit: achene-like drupe.
Genera In Family: 4 genera, 10--12 species: +- worldwide.
eFlora Treatment Author: Robert F. Thorne, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist
Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Zannichellia
Habit: Perennial herb. Stem: generally few-branched. Leaf: entire. Inflorescence: staminate flowers generally 1, pistillate 2--4[6], pedicelled in fruit or not. Staminate Flower: stamen 1, filament slender, anther 2--4-chambered. Pistillate Flower: style short, stigma peltate. Fruit: compressed, abaxially curved, ridged, toothed, adaxially +- straight, base stalk-like, tip beaked.
Species In Genus: +- 5 species: +- worldwide. Etymology: (Gian G. Zannichelli, Venetian botanist, 1662--1729)
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert F. Thorne, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist
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Citation for this treatment: Robert F. Thorne, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist 2012, Zannichellia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=8822, accessed on April 25, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.