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Alismataceae
Alismataceae
Translingual
Proper noun
Alismataceae
- A taxonomic family within the order Alismatales – water plantains and related plants, mainly aquatic, flowering, endemic chiefly to marshes and ponds in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hypernyms
- (family): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Alismatales - order
Hyponyms
- (family): Albidella, Alisma (water plantains), Astonia, Baldellia, Burnatia, Butomopsis, Caldesia, Damasonium, Echinodorus, Hydrocleys, Limnocharis, Limnophyton, Luronium, Ranalisma, Sagittaria (arrowheads), Wiesneria (genera)
- Alismaticarpum, Sagisma (extinct genera)