Baldellia

Baldellia
	Baldellia ranunculoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Alismataceae
Genus:	Baldellia; Parl.
Species
	See text

Baldellia is a genus of aquatic plants commonly known as lesser water-plantains. It includes three species found across much of Europe and the Mediterranean from Ireland and the Canary Islands to Turkey and Estonia.^[1]^[2] The genus is named in honor of the Italian nobleman Bartolommeo Bartolini-Baldelli.^[3]^[4] Baldellia is very closely related to Echinodorus.

Description

Leaves aerial, elliptical to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in 1 – 3 whorls in umbels or racemes, or long-pedunculate in leaf-axils. Stamens 6. Carpels numerous, spirally arranged in a globose head, free, each with 1 ovule; styles apical. Fruitlets achenial, longitudinally 5-ribbed (3 dorsal ribs and 2 closely approximated ventral ribs), with a short, apical beak. 2n=16.

Variable in form according to ecological conditions.

Species

Three species are recognized:^[1]

Baldellia alpestris (Cosson) Vasc. – northwestern Spain and northern Portugal
Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl.
- Baldellia ranunculoides var ranunculoides – from the Azores and Ireland to Turkey and Estonia
- Baldellia ranunculoides var. tangerina (Pau) J.Rocha – Spain, Portugal, Morocco
Baldellia repens (Lam.) Ooststr
- Baldellia repens subsp. baetica Talavera & Casimiro-Soriguer – southwestern Spain
- Baldellia repens subsp. cavanillesii (Molina Abril, A.Galán, J.M.Pizarro & Sard.Rosc.) Talavera – Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Netherlands
- Baldellia repens subsp. repens – Canaries, Spain, Portugal, Algeria

References

^ ^a ^b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
^ "Baldellia ranunculoides [Mestolaccia minore]". luirig.altervista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-26.
^ Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2
^ http://www.zelkova.ch/sites/default/files/Kozlowski_et_al_PPEES_2008.pdf Baldellia ranunculoides

[rosacerros-1] "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.

[2] "Baldellia ranunculoides [Mestolaccia minore]". luirig.altervista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-26.

[Genaust1983-3] Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2

[4] ttp://www.zelkova.ch/sites/default/files/Kozlowski_et_al_PPEES_2008.pdf Baldellia ranunculoides

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