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|accepted_name=Sphenoclea
|accepted_authority=Gaertner
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|title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|place=1: 113, plate 24, fig. 5. 1788
|year=1788
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Sphenocleaceae;Sphenoclea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sphenocleaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sphenoclea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek sphen, wedge, and kleio, to inclose, probably alluding to persistent calyx covering cuneiform fruits
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>glabrous. <b>Roots</b> coarse, usually whitish. <b>Stems</b> erect, hollow, soft. <b>Leaf</b> blades elliptic to oblanceolate, base cuneate, decurrent nearly to base of petiole, apex acute to rounded, sometimes mucronate. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense (rachis hidden by flowers and fruits), acropetal, pedunculate, with 1 small bract subtending each pedicel; bracts greenish white, spatulate, base carinate, apex incurved, acuminate, ± erose; bracteoles 2 per pedicel, greenish white, spatulate, apex incurved, acute to rounded, ± erose. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx persistent, dark green with whitish margins; corolla white. <b>Seeds</b> longitudinally striate. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Sphenoclea
|authority=Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sphenocleaceae
|distribution=Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|publication year=1788
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Sphenoclea
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