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.
Which Aponogetonaceae species is this?
Answer what you can see and narrow it down to a single Aponogetonaceae species.
To check whether a plant belongs to Aponogetonaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodNotable members
Families that can look similar
Araceae
Compare against Araceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare AraceaeAlismataceae
Compare against Alismataceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare AlismataceaeHydrocharitaceae
Compare against Hydrocharitaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare HydrocharitaceaeLemnaceae
Compare against Lemnaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
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