Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Submerged, annual or perennial, herbs, growing firmly attached to rocks in swift-flowing water, often resembling mosses, liverworts or algae. Stems well-developed, floating, often woody. Leaves with floating, often linear to filiform, dissected laminae and/or with small moss-like or reduced and bract-like ones. Flowers bisexual, solitary or cymose, actinomorphic or zygomorphic. Spathella present and persistent (Sphaerothylax) or 0 (Tristicha). Perianth segments 2-3 or 0. Stems 1-many. Ovary 1-3-locular. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds minute, numerous.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Podostemaceae Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=179
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings