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|accepted_name=Brasenia
|accepted_authority=Schreber
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.
|place=1: 372. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Water-shield
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cabombaceae;Brasenia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cabombaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brasenia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Christoph Brasen, 1738-1774, Moravian missionary and plant collector in Greenland and Labrador
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> young vegetative parts heavily coated with mucilage. <b>Leaves</b> floating; petiole long. <b>Leaf</b> blade elliptic. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3, not petaloid, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate; petals 3, linear-oblong, lacking auricles, base not clawed; stamens 18-36(-51), opposite both sepals and petals; pistils 4-18, simple, 1-locular; ovules (1-)2; stigma linear-decurrent. <b>Fruits</b> slightly to strongly fusiform. <b>Seeds</b> ovoid, tubercles absent. <b>x</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Worldwide except Europe;mainly temperate and upland tropics.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Brasenia</i> is known from the fossil record in Europe although it is not known to grow there currently.</p>
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name=Brasenia
|authority=Schreber
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cabombaceae
|distribution=Worldwide except Europe;mainly temperate and upland tropics.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|genus=Brasenia
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