Baldellia

Taxobox
name = "Baldellia"

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image_caption = "Baldellia ranunculoides"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Alismatales
familia = Alismataceae
genus = "Baldellia"
genus_authority = Parl.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Baldiella alpestris"
* "Baldiella ranunculoides"

"Baldellia" is a genus of aquatic plants commonly known as lesser water-plantains. It includes two species found in Europe and occasionally in northern Africa. "Baldellia" is very close to "Echinodorus" botanically and may be included in that genus after further investigations.

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.

pecies

* "Baldellia ranunculoides" (L.) Parl.
* "Baldellia alpestris" (Cosson) Vasc.