Trapella Oliv.

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae

Characteristics

Herbs aquatic. Floating leaves triangular-rounded to cordate, submersed ones lanceolate. Flowers solitary, axillary, mostly submersed and cleistogamous. Calyx teeth 5; tube adnate to ovary. Corolla funnelform, bilabiate; lowest lobe longest, upper 2 forming inconspicuous lip. Stamens 2, included, basally adnate to corolla tube. Ovary inferior, 2-locular, 1 locule reduced, another with 2 ovules. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruiting pedicel nodding. Fruit indehiscent, narrow and long, with 5 hooklike or spiny appendages below calyx lobes, sometimes with 3-5 longitudinal wings. Seeds 1.
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Images

Trapella unspecified picture

Distribution

Trapella world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31868-1
WFO ID wfo-4000038788
COL ID 7YKY
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Synonyms

Trapella

Lower taxons

Trapella sinensis