Villarsia
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Villarsia | |
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Villarsia capensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Menyanthaceae |
Genus: | Villarsia Vent. 1803 |
Species | |
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Villarsia is a genus of aquatic flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae. The genus is named for the French botanist Dominique Villars (1745–1814). Villarsia are wetland plants with basal leaves. The inflorescence is a branched panicle with numerous flowers. Flowers are five-parted, either yellow or white, and the petals are adorned with wings. A number of its Australian species were reassigned to Ornduffia.[1]
Villarsia is largely restricted to Australia, but some species are found in Southeast Asia, and and others exist in South Africa. The geographic distribution of species is given below:
South Africa:
- (Houtt.) Merr.
- Ornduff
- Ornduff
Southeast Asia:
- Hance (synonym: V. rhomboidalis Dop)
Eastern Australia:
- (Sol. ex Sims) G.Don (synonym: Liparophyllum exaltatum)
Western Australia:
- Nees
- F.Muell.
- F.Muell.
- Benth.
- F.Muell.
Notes[]
- ^ Keppel, Gunnar; Robinson, Todd P.; Wardell-Johnson, Grant W.; Yates, Colin J.; Van Niel, Kimberly P.; Byrne, Margaret; Schut, Antonius G. T. (2017). "A low-altitude mountain range as an important refugium for two narrow endemics in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot". Annals of Botany. 119 (2): 289–300. doi:10.1093/aob/mcw182. PMC 5321060. PMID 27634576.
Categories:
- Menyanthaceae
- Freshwater plants
- Asterales genera
- Asterales of Australia