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|accepted_name=Cabomba
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane,
|place=321. 1775
|year=1775
}}
|common_names=Fanwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cabombaceae;Cabomba
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cabombaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cabomba]]</div></div>
|etymology=probably an aboriginal name
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> young vegetative parts often with rust-colored pubescence, barely mucilaginous. <b>Leaves</b> submersed and floating; petiole short to long. <b>Submersed</b> leaves: blade in 3-7 dichotomously [trichotomously] branched, linear segments. <b>Floating</b> leaves: blade terminal, linear-elliptic [broadly elliptic], margins entire or notched at base, appearing only during flowering, inconspicuous [more evident in <i>C. aquatica</i>, a tropical species]. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3, petaloid, obovate; petals 3, oval, with proximal, yellow, nectar-bearing auricles, base clawed; stamens 3-6, opposite petals; pistils [1-]2-4, simple, 1-locular; ovules [1-]3[-5]; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> elongate-pyriform, tapered to apex. <b>Seeds</b> ovoid [somewhat globose], tuberculate. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly tropical regions;Western Hemisphere.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fassett1953a
|text=Fassett, N. C. 1953. A monograph of Cabomba. Castanea 13: 116-128.
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|id=rgaard1991a
|text=Ørgaard, M. 1991. The genus Cabomba (Cabombaceae)--A taxonomic study. Nordic J. Bot. 11: 179-203.
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name=Cabomba
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cabombaceae
|distribution=Mostly tropical regions;Western Hemisphere.
|reference=fassett1953a;rgaard1991a
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane,
|publication year=1775
|special status=
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|genus=Cabomba
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