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1. Isoëtes Linnaeus, Sp. Pl.  2: 1100.  1753.  
水韭属 shui jiu shu 
 
 
 
 
 
Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as those of the family. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        
                         
		
                          
                          
			
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  Plants emergent; microphylls 3-4.5 cm, ca. 1 mm wide; megaspores smooth. | 
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  5 I. hypsophila | 
 
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  Plants submerged or emergent; microphylls longer than (10-)15 cm, 1-10 mm wide; megaspores textured with spines, tubercles, or ridges | 
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  Plants emergent; microphylls 1-2 mm wide; sporangia with white membranous velum cover | 
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  Plants submerged or emergent; microphylls 5-10 mm wide; sporangia without velum cover | 
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  Roots without reddish sheathing mantle; cross section of microphylls more circular; microphylls with 3 or more intrastelar canals; lucunae thick-walled; megaspore proximal hemisphere spinulose to spinulose-cristate, distal hemisphere cristate. | 
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  1 I. sinensis | 
 
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  Roots with reddish sheathing mantle; cross section of microphylls oval; microphylls with 1 intrastelar canal; lucunae thin-walled; megaspore proximal hemisphere cristate, with muri irregularly anastomosing, distal hemisphere cristate-reticulate. | 
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  2 I. orientalis | 
 
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  Plants submerged or emergent; microphylls 10-60 cm; megaspore proximal hemisphere rugulate-cristate with muri irregularly anastomosing, distal hemisphere cristate-reticulate. | 
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  3 I. yunguiensis | 
 
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  Plants emergent; microphylls 7-25 cm; megaspore proximal hemisphere tuberculate, distal hemisphere rugulate with rounded muri irregularly anastomosing. | 
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  4 I. taiwanensis | 
 
 
 
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