Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton Or Cape-Pondweed Family
The Aponogetonaceae family (Aponogeton Or Cape-Pondweed Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Alismatales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 4 species. Its members are predominantly herbs. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include Purple-Spike Lace Plant, Floating lace Plant and Satara Lace Plant.
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Submerged aquatic herbs with strap-like or oblong floating leaves rising from a tuber; small, often fragrant flowers lack petals, arranged instead along one or more forked spikes that rise just above the water surface.
The forked, comb-like flowering spike rising above the water is distinctive enough to separate this family from other aquatic herbs at a glance.
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