Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and allies
Alismatales
The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4,500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats. The order includes the taro plant, Colocasia esculenta, an important food crop.
14 branches of this order, most-observed first
Arum Family
familyAraceae
Water-Plantain family
familyAlismataceae
pondweed family
familyPotamogetonaceae
tape-grass family
familyHydrocharitaceae
Seagrasses
familyZosteraceae
Arrowgrass family
familyJuncaginaceae
flowering-rush family
familyButomaceae
tofieldia family
familyTofieldiaceae
posidonia family
familyPosidoniaceae
manatee-grass family
familyCymodoceaceae
Pod-grass family
familyScheuchzeriaceae
aponogeton family
familyAponogetonaceae
widgeonweed family
familyRuppiaceae
maundia family
familyMaundiaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48073.