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|accepted_name=Hydrocleys
|accepted_authority=Richard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle
|place=1: 368. 1815
|year=1815
}}
|common_names=Water-poppy
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Limnocharitaceae;Hydrocleys
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Limnocharitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hydrocleys]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hydro, water, and clavis, club-shaped, presumably from shape of pistils
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stolons </b>often present, terete. <b>Leaves</b>: 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. <b>Inflorescences</b> occasionally proliferating with stolons, leaves; scape septate; bracts subtending pedicel, distinct, elliptic to lanceolate, shorter than pedicel, delicate. <b>Flowers</b>: 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. <b>Fruits</b> ± terete, linear-lanceoloid, membranous, dehiscing along adaxial margins. <b>Seeds</b> 50 or more, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kenton1982a
|text=Kenton, A. 1982. A Robertsonian relationship in the chromosomes of two species of Hydrocleys (Butomaceae sens. lat.). Kew Bull. 36: 487--492.
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name=Hydrocleys
|authority=Richard
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Limnocharitaceae
|distribution=North America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=kenton1982a
|publication title=Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle
|publication year=1815
|special status=
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|genus=Hydrocleys
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