黄花蔺属 huang hua lin shu

Herbs, aquatic, with aerial leaves. Leaves petiolate, ovate to orbicular. Scapes erect; umbels terminal; bracts forming an involucre. Pedicels thick. Sepals persistent, green. Petals yellowish, thin. Stamens numerous, with sterile staminodes in outermost whorl; filaments flattened. Carpels numerous, free, crowded into a head, laterally compressed; stigmas sessile. Seeds numerous, strongly curved; embryo horseshoe-shaped.

One species: tropical and subtropical regions from S North to South America, naturalized throughout S and SE Asia.

Lower Taxon

• Limnocharis flava (Linnaeus) Buchenau