Common Name: WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY 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. eFlora Treatment Author: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Perennial herb; 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. Etymology: (Greek: ancient name) Unabridged Reference: Vuille 1987 Pl Syst Evol 157:63--71
Damasonium californicum Torr. ex Benth.
NATIVE Leaf: 5--35 cm; blade 3--9 cm, 0.5--3 cm wide, generally < petiole, linear to narrowly ovate. Inflorescence: generally > leaves; pedicels 15--65 mm in fruit, spreading to ascending. Flower: petals 6--10 mm, basal spot yellow; anthers +- red. Fruit: body 3--5.5 mm; beak 3--6 mm. Ecology: Ponds, vernal pools, streams; Elevation: < 1700 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoRI, n SNF, GV, nw SnFrB, MP; Distribution Outside California: to Oregon, Idaho, Nevada. Flowering Time: Late summer Synonyms: Machaerocarpus californicus (Torr. ex Benth.) Small Jepson eFlora Author: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Damasonium Next taxon: Echinodorus
Citation for this treatment: Charles E. Turner, Robert R. Haynes & C. Barre Hellquist 2012, Damasonium californicum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=22313, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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