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Aponogeton is a genus of flowering aquatic plants. Aponogeton is the only genus of the family Aponogetonaceae. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ...
Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ...
Families Alismataceae Aponogetonaceae Araceae Butomaceae Cymodoceaceae Hydrocharitaceae Juncaginaceae Limnocharitaceae Posidoniaceae Potamogetonaceae Ruppiaceae Scheuchzeriaceae Tofieldiaceae Zosteraceae The order Alismatales contains the alismatids, a group of monocotyledons (class Liliopsida). ...
Portrait by Jonas Forslund Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger (20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist. ...
In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ...
Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments. ...
Linnaeus f., Supplementum Plantarum. 32.; 214. 1782.
The name is Greek, from their aquatic habitat
Aponogeton species are native to Africa and Asia. They are fully aquatic, becoming dormant during drought conditions. Most species grow from tubers. They are used as decorative plants in aquaria. A tuber is a part of a rhizome thickened for use as a storage organ, usually, though not always, subterranean, such as a potato. ...
Herbs with milky sap. Leaves sheathing at base; axillary scales present. Inflorescences branched [unbranched], projected above water. Flowers bilaterally symmetric, sessile; stamens 6--18--[50]; filaments distinct; anthers 2-locular; pistils 2--6[--9], sessile. Fruits: beak terminal [lateral], curved or straight. Seeds: endosperm absent; seed coat single or double. x = 8. This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ...
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Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...
Flower of the spider tree (Crateva religiosa) with its numerous conspicuous stamens The stamen is the male organ of a flower. ...
Flower of the spider tree (Crateva religiosa) with its numerous conspicuous stamens The stamen is the male organ of a flower. ...
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Species
 An African Aponogeton with a triple flower spike. About 47 species. North America; native, Africa; tropical regions, Eastern Hemisphere. Species include: - A. abyssinicus, native to eastern Africa.
- A. biovinianus, a species originating in Madagascar.
- A. crispus, a common aquarium species, with long, reddish, undulating leaves. Many hybrids are available from pet shops.
- A. desertorum, dog-with-two-tails, native to southern Africa.
- Aponogeton distachyos, Cape pondweed, water hawthorn, another common aquarium species. Native to South Africa, hence 'Cape' in the common name. Bears small white flowers.
- A. madagascarensis, Madagascar Lace Plant, Lattice Leaf, has long, broad, lace-like leaves, and is endangered in the wild. Also referred to as A. fenestralis.
- A. rigidifolia, native to Sri Lanka, has long green-brown leaves, and grows from a rhizome.
- A. undulatus, a large species with yellow flowers, native to Madagascar.
- A. ulvaceous, native to India, propagates by producing plantlets, similar to the spider plant.
Ginger rhizome In botany, a rhizome is a usually-underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...
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