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Hydatellales
Article By:
Barkley, Theodore M. Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
Last reviewed:2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.326350
An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Commelinidae of the class Liliopsida (monocotyledons). The order consists of a single family with five species native to Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. The plants are small, submersed or partly submersed aquatic annuals with greatly simplified internal anatomy. The leaves are tufted at the base of the stem, and the inflorescence is a terminal head with two to several bracts, each subtending one to several reduced, unisexual flowers. These plants have sometimes been included within the Restionales, but the structural details of the ovary and seed set them apart. They are of no economic significance. See also: Commelinidae; Liliopsida; Magnoliophyta; Plant kingdom; Restionales
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