APONOGETONACEAE
Morphological description
Aquatic herbs, laticiferous, exstipulate.
Leaves
Leaves oblong, basally crowded, venation parallel.
Flowers
Flowers usually bisexual, perianth segments 2; ovary superior, apocarpous.
Different from: Hydrocharitaceae, not laticiferous, ovary inferior. - Potamogetonaceae, not laticiferous.
Distribution: The only genus of the family, Aponogeton, is confined to the Old World, best represented in Africa and Madagascar. In Malesia 4 native species.
Notes: Aponogeton fenestralis* is cultivated as an ornamental.
Literature: C.G.G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1948) 11-12; H.W.E. van Bruggen, Fl. Males. I, 7 (1971) 213-218.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Aponogeton White or yellow sap.
Illustrations: Fig. 16. Aponogeton womersleyi Bruggen (Aponogetonaceae). Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 7 (1971) 217, fig. 4a.
Image in PhytoImages for Aponogetonaceae