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Family
Classification
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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Egeria Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 2, 79 (1849)
Description
Submersed aquatic perennials of fresh water, rooting or drifting; dioecious. Stems simple or dichotomously branched. Leaves numerous, sessile, whorled, margins minutely toothed. Flowers unisexual, with slender pedicel-like perianth-tubes from sessile axillary spathes; sepals 3, green, herbaceous; petals 3, white, membranous, > sepals. Male flowers 2–4 from each spathe, each with 9 stamens; filaments glandular-papillose; female flowers with 3 staminodia, stigmas 3, bifid; all flowers with central nectary. Fruit obscurely trigonous, 3–6-seeded.
[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Total | 1 |
Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Mabberley, D.J. 2017: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 4. Cambridge University Press.
Planchon, J.E. 1849: Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique sér. 2,
