Egeria Planchon
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BD9943-FFBB-FF9B-CAAC-FB17F4078C0C |
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Plazi |
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Egeria Planchon |
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4. Egeria Planchon View in CoL 1
Dioecious; stems elongated. Leaves submerged, verticillate, sessile, linear. Flowers insect-pollinated above the water-surface. Spathes tubular, axillary, sessile, the male 2- to 4-flowered, the female 1-flowered. Petals much longer and wider than the sepals. Male flowers long-pedicellate; stamens 9(-10). Ovary sessile within the spathe, attenuated into a long filiform beak; styles 3, 2(-3)-fid, free.
Literature: H. St John, Darwiniana 12: 293-307 (1961).
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