Alismataceae Ventenat. Common name: Water-plantain Family.
A family of about 17 genera and 113 species, herbs, subcosmopolitan in distribution. Here circumscribed to include the Limnocharitaceae, which forms one of three clades (and not the first-branching) in a broadened Alismataceae (Li et al. 2022).
References: Haynes (2000b) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2000); Haynes & Hellquist (2000a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2000); Haynes, Les, & Holm-Nielsen In Kubitzki (1998b); Lehtonen (2008); Lehtonen & Myllys (2008); Li et al. (2022); Li et al. (2022); Rogers (1983). Show full citations.
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