Caldesia

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Caldesia
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Genus: Caldesia
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Caldesia is a genus of aquatic plants.

Description

Leaves all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Stamens 6(-11). Carpels few or numerous in a single whorl, free, each with 1 ovule; styles subventral. Fruitlets drupaceous, with woody endocarp and spongy exocarp, swollen, with a short subventral beak, smooth or with tubercles or spines.

Species

  • C. parnassifolia (L.) Parl. syn. Alisma parnassifolium L.
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