Albidella
| Albidella | |
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| Albidella oligococca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Alismataceae |
| Genus: | Albidella Pichon |
Albidella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae. It includes four species native to the tropics.[1]
Species
[edit]Four species are accepted.[1]
- Albidella acanthocarpa (F.Muell.) Lehtonen
- Albidella glandulosa (Thwaites) Lehtonen
- Albidella nymphaeifolia (Griseb.) Pichon
- Albidella oligococca (F.Muell.) Lehtonen
Etymology
[edit]Albidella is a taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the confamilial genus Baldellia. The latter name is a taxonomic patronym honoring the Italian nobleman Bartolommeo Bartoloni-Baldelli.[2]
Description
[edit]This genus markedly differs from Echinodorus by a typical paniculate inflorescence shaped as a regular pyramid. Flowering stalk is 40 – 50 cm tall, inflorescence up to 12 – 20 cm long, flowers arranged in 2 - 6 whorls, bracts of the lower whorl reach a length of 2.5 – 4 cm and a width of 0.5 - 0.8 cm, bracts in further whorls being only 2 – 5 mm long. Corolla white, stamens usually 9. Compound fruit comprises maximum 20 achenes, each 1.4 - 1.6 mm long x 1 mm wide with a broad crested keel and with crested ribs and 1 or 2 long glands on each face, beak 0.2 mm long.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Albidella Pichon". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A13. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901.
- ^ Pichon, Marcel. 1946. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Phanérogramie, 12: 174-175
External links
[edit]- Herbarium specimen - Belize
- photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia
- photo of herbarium specimen at Natural History Museum (London), collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Photos of Albidella nymphaeifolia