Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-666.31.00
Menyanthaceae
French: Menyanthacees.
Botany: aquatic, wetland; 5 genera, 60-70 species; simple or compound leaves arise alternately from a creeping rhizome; inflorescence erect; flowers sympetalous, insect-pollinated; yellow or white; petals are ciliate or adorned with lateral wings; fruit is a capsule.
Use: ornamentals
Genera: Liparophyllum, Menyanthes, Nephrophyllidium (deer cabbage), Nymphoides (floating heart, water snowflake), Villarsia.
Taxonomy
Menyanthaceae have been placed in Gentianales in the past. The Apg3 classification has placed it in Campanulales.
The Campanulales are in Phase 3. Menyanthaceae is in Subphase 1, being mostly aquatics.