Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Fresh water plants, usually with a tuberous rhizome; leaves submerged, aerial or with a floating lamina, linear to elliptic, petiolate.

Flowers bisexual or female, with 1-3 perianth-segments (? - bracts), arranged in simple or forked spikes enclosed within a usually caducous spathe; stamens 6-16, free; carpels 3-6, free, with a simple style and stigma along the ventral surface of the style, with 2-8 basal ovules in each carpel.

Fruiting carpels membranous.

Distribution:  1 genus in Africa, Asia and Australia with about 25 species; about 5 species in Australia. (H. I. As, ton (1973)Aquatic plants of Australia).

Biology: No text

Author: Prepared by J. P. Jessop