Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Alismatales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Hydrocharitaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Aquatic herbs, free-floating or rooted.
Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate, opposite, whorled, or often basal, submerged, emergent, or floating, often variable on the same plant.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence a cyme or of solitary flowers, axillary or originating from basal rosette of leaves.
Flowers: Flower bisexual, mostly actinomorphic; tepals 6, free or weakly fused at base, usually petal-like; stamens few to many; ovary inferior, 1-locular, often with deep partitions, the placentation laminar-dispersed or basal.
Fruit: Fruit a dehiscent or indehiscent capsule, fleshy or dry, often opening by decay.
Seeds: Seeds numerous per fruit, often dispersed by water.