Limnocharis Bonpl.

Perennial, lactescent, aquatic or marsh plants, acaulescent from a mass of fleshy fibrous roots. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, attenuate or rarely somewhat cordate at the base; petioles elongate and sheathing at the base. Inflo-rescences simple, umbellate, supported on a naked scape shorter than the leaves. Flowers perfect, pedicellate; sepals 3, greenish-yellow; petals 3, yellow; stamens numerous, the outermost sterile; carpels 15-20, laterally compressed, more or less united, thickened on the back, the sides delicately membranaceous in fruit, con-taining numerous seeds, dehiscent ventrally.