Water-plantain
Botanical name: Alismataceae
Water-plantain
Botanical name: Alismataceae
Species of Water-plantain
Arrowheads
Arrowheads are a widespread genus of creeping aquatic plants. They are easy to care for in a freshwater aquarium and highly adaptable to new environments. In the wild, they are typically found in areas with slow-flowing water and are recognizable by the arrow-shaped leaves. Some species are used as ornamental plants, while others are considered invasive and noxious.
Limnocharis
Limnocharis is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae native to Mexico Central America the West Indies and South America but naturalized in Asia as well. Two species are recognized as of spring 2014.
Hydrocleys
Hydrocleys is a genus of aquatic plants in the Alismataceae native to the Western Hemisphere. At present (Spring 2014) five species are recognized.
Alisma
Alisma are a genus of herbaceous perennial aquatic plants with leaves that either submerge under or float on the surface of their preferred freshwater habitats. They produce curved flowers in tight whorls. In Celtic mythology, some species were believed to protect people from bad fairies.
Waterplantain
Waterplantain is a genus of aquatic plants. It includes three species found across much of Europe and the Mediterranean from Ireland and the Canary Islands to Turkey and Estonia. Leaves are aerial, elliptical to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Flowers are hermaphrodite, in 1 - 3 whorls in umbels or racemes, or long-pedunculate in leaf-axils.
Damasonium
caldesia
Caldesia is a genus of aquatic plants. Leaves are all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers are hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Fruitlets are drupaceous, with woody endocarp and spongy exocarp, swollen, with a short subventral beak, smooth or with tubercles or spines. It includes three living species. Caldesia is widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Burheads
Burheads is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae and distributed in the Western Hemisphere from the central United States to Argentina. The plants are annual or perennial growing emersed floating-leaved or seasonally submersed leaves glabrous to stellate-pubescent; rhizomes present or absent. Roots are not septate. Leaves are sessile or petiolate; blade with translucent markings as dots or lines present or absent linear to lanceolate to ovate. Flowers are bisexual subsessile to pedicellate. Fruits are plump often longitudinally ribbed sometimes flattened. As of spring 2014 30 species are accepted by authorities at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens.
Ranalisma
It includes two species; one from tropical Africa and the other from southeast Asia.
Scientific Classification
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