View source for Aponogetonaceae

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|accepted_name=Aponogetonaceae
|accepted_authority=J. Agardh
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|common_names=Aponogeton or Cape-pondweed Family
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|hierarchy=Aponogetonaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aponogetonaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=page 39
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, caulescent; turions absent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, floating [submersed], petiolate [sessile]; sheath not persisting longer than blade, not leaving circular scar when shed, not ligulate, not auriculate; blade ovate to narrowly lanceolate [linear]; intravaginal squamules (i.e., minute appressed, planate trichomes attached at basal edge) scales, more than 2. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, spikes, subtended by spathe, pedunculate; peduncle following fertilization not elongating, not spiraling. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual [unisexual]; subtending bracts absent; perianth present [absent]; tepals 1[–6]; stamens 6–18[–50] in 2–3[–4] series, not epitepalous; anthers distinct, dehiscing longitudinally; pollen ellipsoid; pistils 2–6[–9], distinct, not stipitate; ovules basal-marginal, anatropous. <b>Fruits</b> follicles. <b>Seeds</b> 4; embryo straight.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;s Africa;and tropical regions of Eastern Hemisphere.
|discussion=<p>Genera 1, species 5247 (1 genus, 1 species in the flora).</p>
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|id=bruggen1973a
|text=Bruggen, H. W. E. van. 1973. Revision of the genus Aponogeton (Aponogetonaceae): VI. The species of Africa. Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 43: 1--2, 193--233.
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|id=bruggen1985a
|text=Bruggen, H. W. E. van. 1985. Monograph of the Genus Aponogeton (Aponogetonaceae). Stuttgart.
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name=Aponogetonaceae
|author=C. Barre Hellquist;Robert R. Haynes
|authority=J. Agardh
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|family=Aponogetonaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=North America;s Africa;and tropical regions of Eastern Hemisphere.
|reference=bruggen1973a;bruggen1985a
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