- Family:
- Alismataceae Vent.
Sagittaria Ruppius ex L.
[FTEA]
Alismataceae, Susan Carter. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1960
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial, occasionally annual, monoecious, rarely dioecious, marsh or aquatic herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves erect, floating or submerged; leaf-blade of the erect leaves linear to broadly ovate, often with sagittate base; that of the floating leaves linear to ovate, with cuneate to cordate base; submerged leaves rarely lanceolate, usually modified into linear phyllodes, occasionally terete and spongy
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence erect or sometimes floating, with 1–12 whorls, each usually 3-flowered, the upper ♂, the lower ♀; flowers occasionally replaced by branches; bracts 3; pedicels often thickened and recurved in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 3, reflexed in the ♂ flowers, appressed, spreading or reflexed in the ♀ flowers
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 3, white, rarely pink, sometimes with a purple spot near the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 9–∞; filaments filiform, sometimes flattened or broadened at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
- Carpels ∞, free, spirally arranged on a convex receptacle; style ventral; ovules solitary, basal
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a globose head of achenes which are much compressed laterally, winged and beaked.
[FZ]
Phytolaccaceae, B. L. Stannard. Flora Zambesiaca 9:1. 1988
- Morphology General Habit
- Subshrubs or herbs sometimes becoming woody at base, annual and perennial.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, often with fascicles of leaves in axils, filiform or with distinctly broad lamina, sometimes more or less succulent, sessile or petiolate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences spikes, terminal and axillary.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, usually in clusters of 3.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts solitary, sometimes 3-lobed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracteoles
- Bracteoles sometimes present in pairs.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4–5, more or less equal, membranous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, three alternate with sepals and one opposite; filaments filiform, free.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary globose, 1-ovulate; style absent or short; stigmas 4, filiform.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit subglobose to globose, ridged, muricate or warty.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed 1; testa dark brown or black.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burkina, Buryatiya, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Central European Rus, Chad, Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Florida, France, French Guiana, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Labrador, Laos, Louisiana, Madagascar, Magadan, Maine, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Senegal, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
Introduced into:
Azores, Borneo, Cook Is., Fiji, Hawaii, Leeward Is., Marianas, Marquesas, Palestine, Society Is., South Australia, Tanzania, Tubuai Is.
- Sagittaria aginashi Makino
- Sagittaria ambigua J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria australis (J.G.Sm.) Small
- Sagittaria brevirostra Mack. & Bush
- Sagittaria chapmanii (J.G.Sm.) C.Mohr
- Sagittaria cristata Engelm.
- Sagittaria cuneata E.Sheld.
- Sagittaria demersa J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria engelmanniana J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria fasciculata E.O.Beal
- Sagittaria filiformis J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria graminea Michx.
- Sagittaria guayanensis Kunth
- Sagittaria intermedia Micheli
- Sagittaria isoetiformis J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria kurziana Glück
- Sagittaria lancifolia L.
- Sagittaria latifolia Willd.
- Sagittaria lichuanensis J.K.Chen, X.Z.Sun & H.Q.Wang
- Sagittaria longiloba Engelm. ex J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria × lunata C.D.Preston & Uotila
- Sagittaria macrocarpa J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria macrophylla Zucc.
- Sagittaria montevidensis Cham. & Schltdl.
- Sagittaria natans Pall.
- Sagittaria papillosa Buchenau
- Sagittaria planitiana G.Agostini
- Sagittaria platyphylla (Engelm.) J.G.Sm.
- Sagittaria potamogetifolia Merr.
- Sagittaria pygmaea Miq.
- Sagittaria rhombifolia Cham.
- Sagittaria rigida Pursh
- Sagittaria sagittifolia L.
- Sagittaria sanfordii Greene
- Sagittaria secundifolia Kral
- Sagittaria sprucei Micheli
- Sagittaria subulata (L.) Buchenau
- Sagittaria tengtsungensis H.Li
- Sagittaria teres S.Watson
- Sagittaria trifolia L.
Sagittaria Ruppius ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 993 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Bogin in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9: 179-233 (1955).
- Sp. Pl. 993 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- C. Bogin in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 179 (1955)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 429 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 993 (1753)
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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