Biology:Caldesia
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| Caldesia parnassifolia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Alismataceae |
| Genus: | Caldesia Parl. |
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Caldesia is a genus of aquatic plants. It includes three living species widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia .[1][2][3] The genus "has an extensive Oligocene through Pleistocene fossil record in Eurasia,"[4] and has been found in fossil strata of the United States (Idaho and Vermont) as well. Ten fossil species have been described for the genus.
Taxonomy
The genus name of Caldesia is in honour of Ludovico (Luigi) Caldesi (1821 - 1884), an Italian politician and botanist.[5]
The genus was circumscribed by Filippo Parlatore in Fl. Ital. Vol.3 on page 598 in 1860.
Description
Leaves all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Stamens 6(-11). Carpels few or numerous in a single whorl, free, each with 1 ovule; styles subventral. Fruitlets drupaceous, with woody endocarp and spongy exocarp, swollen, with a short subventral beak, smooth or with tubercles or spines.
Selected species
- Caldesia brandoniana †
- Caldesia grandis Sam. - Assam, Bangladesh, southern China
- Caldesia oligococca (F.Muell.) Buchanan
- Caldesia parnassifolia (L.) Parl. (synonym: Caldesia reniformis (D.Don) Makino) - widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, Queensland
References
- ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=301593.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Mestolaccia minore, Parnassus Leaved Water Plantain, Caldesia parnassifolia
- ↑ "Caldesia in Flora of China @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=105055.
- ↑ Haggard, Kristina K.; Tiffney, Bruce H. (1997). "The Flora of the Early Miocene Brandon Lignite, Vermont, USA. VIII. Caldesia (Alismataceae)". American Journal of Botany (American Journal of Botany, Vol. 84, No. 2) 84 (2): 239–252. doi:10.2307/2446086.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
Wikidata ☰ Q2673201 entry
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