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|accepted_name=Orontium
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 324. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5; 151, 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Golden-club
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Araceae;Orontium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Araceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Orontium]]</div></div>
|etymology=ancient Greek name for plant that grew on River Orontes
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> wetland. <b>Rhizomes</b> vertical. <b>Leaves</b> appearing before flowers, several, emergent or sometimes floating, clustered; petiole longer than blade; blade abaxially paler green, adaxially dark bluish green with distinctive velvety sheen, simple, not peltate, oblong-elliptic, base acute to obtuse or sometimes oblique, apex rounded-apiculate or short-acuminate; venation parallel to midvein except near base. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle reclining in fruit, usually equal to or longer than leaves, apex swollen; spathe absent; spadix long-conic. <b>Flowers</b> mostly bisexual, the distal staminate; perianth present. <b>Fruits</b> partially embedded in spadix, green to blue-green. <b>Seed</b> 1, embedded in mucilage. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=e United States;primarily on coastal plain.
|discussion=<p>The leaf sheathing the peduncle, which has been interpreted as the spathe in <i>Orontium</i>, is a sympodial leaf and is not equivalent to the spathe of other Araceae (T. S. Ray 1988). <i>Orontium</i> also differs in several other characteristics from the presumably related genera <i>Lysichiton</i> and <i>Symplocarpus</i> and has been segregated as a monogeneric tribe (M. H. Grayum 1990).</p><!--
--><p>Species 1.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=grear1966a
|text=Grear, J. W. Jr. 1966. Cytogeography of Orontium aquaticum (Araceae). Rhodora 68: 25--34.
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|id=klotz1992a
|text=Klotz, L. H. 1992. On the biology of Orontium aquaticum L. (Araceae), golden club or floating arum. Aroideana 15: 25--33.
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name=Orontium
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Araceae
|distribution=e United States;primarily on coastal plain.
|reference=grear1966a;klotz1992a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|genus=Orontium
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