Isoetaceae Dumort.
  • Anal. Fam. Pl. 67. 1829. 


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General Information

The only family of the order, containing only the genus Isoëtes.

  • Provided by: [C].Northeastern Flora
    • Source: [
    • 5
    • ]. 

    Morphology

    Leaves terete, or flattened above, with a ligule near the base and a sporangium sunk in a cavity in the leaf below the ligule Usually with annual grass–like leaves arising in a tuft from a flattened corm–like axis; corm 3–4–lobed with black roots arising from the furrows between the lobes Herbaceous perennial aquatics or plants of wet places

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    • 1
    • ]. 

    Stem short, corm-like, 2–4-lobed or unlobed, or better developed, elongate or rhizome-like; roots numerous, branched Truly aquatic plants or terrestrialin seasonally boggy habitats

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    • 2
    • ]. 
    Flora of West Tropical Africa - species descriptionsMorphology

    Leaves terete, or flattened above, with a ligule near the base and a sporangium sunk in a cavity in the leaf below the ligule Usually with annual grass–like leaves arising in a tuft from a flattened corm–like axis; corm 3–4–lobed with black roots arising from the furrows between the lobes Herbaceous perennial aquatics or plants of wet places Usually with annual grass–like leaves arising in a tuft from a flattened corm–like axis; corm 3–4–lobed with black roots arising from the furrows between the lobes Herbaceous perennial aquatics or plants of wet places

    Northeastern FloraGeneral Information

    The only family of the order, containing only the genus Isoëtes.

    Plants Of the World Online Portal - FTEAMorphology

    Stem short, corm-like, 2–4-lobed or unlobed, or better developed, elongate or rhizome-like; roots numerous, branched Truly aquatic plants or terrestrialin seasonally boggy habitats Truly aquatic plants or terrestrialin seasonally boggy habitats

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