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Hydrocleys
Family:
Alismataceae
TANAKA Juuyoh (????)
FNA
Resources
Robert R. Haynes in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Stolons often present, terete. Leaves: submersed leaves phyllodia, (expanded petioles resembling and functioning like leaves), sessile; floating leaves long-petiolate, petioles terete, septate; blade orbiculate to oblong-lanceolate, base cordate [rounded], apex mucronate to obtuse. Inflorescences occasionally proliferating with stolons, leaves; scape septate; bracts subtending pedicel, distinct, elliptic to lanceolate, shorter than pedicel, delicate. Flowers: sepals persistent, erect, green, lanceolate, leathery, midvein absent [present], apex hoodlike; petals erect to spreading, yellow to white, orbiculate [oblong-obovate], longer than [shorter than] sepals; stamens in [1--]4--5 series, outer often sterile; pistils terete, linear-lanceoloid, attenuate into style, style curved inward, apex papillose. Fruits ± terete, linear-lanceoloid, membranous, dehiscing along adaxial margins. Seeds 50 or more, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent.
Species within inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Hydrocleys commersonii
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Hydrocleys modesta
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Hydrocleys nymphoides
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Hydrocleys parviflora
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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