Brasenia

Brasenia

Taxobox
name = "Brasenia"
status = R
status_system = QLDNCA


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Nymphaeales
familia = Cabombaceae
genus = "Brasenia"
genus_authority = Schreb.
species = "B. schreberi"
binomial = "Brasenia schreberi"
binomial_authority = J. F. Gmel.

"Brasenia" is a waterplant genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one extant species widely distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions of the world. Fossil "Brasenia" is present in Europe although it does not occur there now. "Brasenia schreberi" (syn. "B. nymphoides", "B. peltata") has the vernacular name water-shield (also watershield or water shield). Unlike other waterlilies the flowers of "Brasenia" are wind pollinated and in consequence large quantities of dry, easily dispersed pollen are produced.

The genus commemorates the surgeon and Moravian missionary Christoph Brasen (1738-1774), who was the first superintendent of the Moravian mission at Nain in Labrador.

References

Mackenzie L. Taylor & Jeffrey M. Osborn (2006) Pollen ontogeny in Brasenia (Cabombaceae, Nymphaeales). American Journal of Botany 93: 344-356

External links

* [http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/plantid2/descriptions/brasch.html Washington State Department of Ecology: "Brasenia schreberi"]
* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2699,2700,2701 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=BRSC USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Brasenia+schreberi Photo gallery]


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