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Alismataceae Vent.

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Alismataceae Vent., Tabl. Regn. Vég. 2, 157 (1799)
Alismataceae Vent.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Vent.
Vent.
1799
157
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Alismataceae Vent.
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Alismataceae

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Alismataceae

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Alismataceae Vent.

Annual or perennial, marsh or aquatic, sometimes lactiferous herbs, erect, rarely with floating leaves; hermaphrodite, monoecious or dioecious, Leaves all basal, long-petioled, sheathing; laminae linear-lanceolate, hastate, sagittate or cordate. Flowers actinomorphic, usually bisexual, in panicles or racemes; sepals 3, green, persistent; petals 3. deciduous, rarely 0. Stamens (3)-6 or more, hypogynous, free; anthers 2-celled. Carpels numerous, superior, free or rarely connate at base, arranged in a ring or irregularly packed over surface of receptacle; style persistent; ovules 1-several. Fruit a head or whorl of achenes, rarely of follicles. Genera 13, of temperate and tropical regions of N. Hemisphere.

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Alismataceae Vent.
United Kingdom

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28f7e49b-8a88-4aa5-a160-8930d4aba405
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1 January 2000
9 June 2022
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