Villarsia

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Villarsia
Villarsia capensis Cape Bogbean.JPG
Villarsia capensis
Scientific classification e
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[]

  1. ^ 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.
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