Hydrilla Rich.

Symoens, J.J. (2009) Hydrocharitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 12(2)

Description of the genus

Submerged, freshwater, annual or perennial herbs. Roots simple, adventitious, without root-hairs, arising from nodes. Stems elongate, stoloniferous, or erect, terete, simple or branched from axils. Leaves sessile, opposite towards base of stem or branch, otherwise in whorls of 3–8(–12), linear to ovate, light to dark green, opaque or somewhat translucent, with 1 apical spine, margins hyaline, denticulate. Nodal scales 2 per leaf, narrowly triangular to narrowly lanceolate, fringed with orange-brown hairs. Flowers spathe solitary in leaf-axil, sessile, appendages at the apex, 1-flowered, shortly pedicellate, becoming detached and floating before anthesis; sepals 3, ovate, obtuse, reflexed at anthesis; petals 3, linear, obtuse, ± reflexed at anthesis; ovary of 3 carpels, 1-locular, placentation parietal. Fruit cylindric, smooth or with lateral spine-like appendages. Seeds up to 5, narrowly ellipsoid, smooth.

Worldwide: 13 species in tropical and subtropical Old World waters.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Hydrilla
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Hydrilla
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hydrilla
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Wikipedia: Hydrilla

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Hydrilla.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2347, retrieved 19 March 2024

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