Common Name: CAPE-PONDWEED FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb from corm, tuber, or short, thick rhizome, aquatic, glabrous; sap milky. Leaf: alternate, simple, [generally submersed] or floating, petioled, basal in opposite pairs; blade expanded or not, elliptic to lanceolate if floating. Inflorescence: terminal, scape above water, generally spike or panicle with 2--3(10) spike-like branches, subtended by conspicuous, deciduous bract. Flower: bisexual [unisexual], bilateral; perianth parts [0]1[6], generally petal-like, white or yellow; stamens 6--18 in 2 series or 6--50 in 3--4 series; pistils 2--6(9), fused +- 1/2--2/3, separating in fruit, ovary superior, chamber 1, ovules 1--12, style short, stigmatic surface grooved. Fruit: follicle, leathery. Seed: 4; embryo straight. Genera In Family: 1 genus, +- 54 species: tropical Asia, Australia, southern Africa. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert F. Thorne, C. Barre Hellquist & Robert R. Haynes Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
NATURALIZED Leaf: petiole to 100 cm; blade 6--23 cm, +- narrow-lanceolate to -elliptic. Inflorescence: panicle of generally 2 spike-like branches, emergent; bract +- 3 cm; flowers in 2 rows, +- on 1-side of axis. Flower: perianth part 1, white, enlarging, turning green in fruit, base wide; stamens many. Fruit: to 22 mm, curved or straight; beak terminal, +- 5 mm. Ecology: Ponds; Elevation: < 150 m. Bioregional Distribution: c-w SnFrB, s SCo, expected elsewhere; Distribution Outside California: native to southern Africa. Flowering Time: Feb--Apr Note: Widely cultivated for aquaria, often escaping but generally a waif. Synonyms: Aponogeton distachyon, orth. var. Jepson eFlora Author: Robert F. Thorne, C. Barre Hellquist & Robert R. Haynes Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Aponogeton Next taxon: Araceae
Botanical illustration including Aponogeton distachyos
Citation for this treatment: Robert F. Thorne, C. Barre Hellquist & Robert R. Haynes 2012, Aponogeton distachyos, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=13649, accessed on April 24, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 24, 2024.
No expert verified images found for Aponogeton distachyos.
Geographic subdivisions for Aponogeton distachyos:
c-w SnFrB, s SCo, expected elsewhere
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