30A - Cabombaceae
from Division 5 - Magnoliophyta
Summary
Perennial, aquatic herbs. Leaves mostly submerged and opposite, deeply and finely palmately dissected, petiolate; floating leaves alternate, peltate, entire, without stipules. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, slightly emergent, bisexual, actinomorphic, hypogynous; pedicel long. Perianth segments 6, free, white, in 2 whorls. Stamens 6. Styles 2–4, short; stigma capitate. Fruit an indehiscent usually 3-seeded follicle.
Consists of 2 genera and 7 species
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- Flora of Great Britain and Ireland , pp. 132 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018