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.
TaxonomyMenyanthaceae 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.