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Alismataceae 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. Jepson eFlora Author: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist Reference: Haynes & Hellquist 2000 FNANM 22:7--25 Unabridged Reference: Rogers 1983 J Arnold Arbor 64:383--420 Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti. Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Key to Alismataceae Previous taxon: Yucca schidigera Next taxon: Alisma |