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|accepted_name=Blyxa
|accepted_authority=Noroña ex Thouars
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|title=Genera Nova Madagascariensia
|place=4. 1806
|year=1806
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hydrocharitaceae;Blyxa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrocharitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Blyxa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek blyxo, to gush forth, spout out, bubble up
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual [perennial], of fresh waters. <b>Rhizomes</b> absent [present]; stolons present. <b>Erect</b> stems rooted in substrate, unbranched short. <b>Leaves</b> basal, submersed, sessile; blade of uniform color from margin to margin, with continuous intercellular spaces, linear, base grading into sheath, apex acute; midvein without rows of lacunae along sides, uniform in color throughout from margin to margin, with continuous intercellular spaces; abaxial surfacely without prickles or aerenchyma; intravaginal squamules entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1-flowered, flowers rarely paired [cymose], long-pedunculate; spathe not winged. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual [unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants], emersed, pedicellate; petals white to reddish; filaments distinct; anthers fusiform; pollen in monads; ovary 1-locular; styles 1, not 2-fid. <b>Fruits</b> cylindric, ridged, dehiscing irregularly. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid or fusiform, echinate [without spines and with or without ridges or wings].</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (1 in flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cook1983b
|text=Cook, C. D. K., and R. Lüönd. 1983. A revision of the genus Blyxa (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Bot. 15: 1--52.
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|id=thieret1969a
|text=Thieret, J. W., R. R. Haynes, and D. H. Dike. 1969. Blyxa aubertii (Hydrocharitaceae) in Louisiana: New to North America. Sida 3: 343--344.
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|authority=Noroña ex Thouars
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Hydrocharitaceae
|distribution=North America;Asia;Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=cook1983b;thieret1969a
|publication title=Genera Nova Madagascariensia
|publication year=1806
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