9164.000 Enydra Lour.

Wild, H. (1967) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 1. Heliantheae. Kirkia 6(1) 1-62

Description of the genus

Erect or prostrate herbs of wet places. Leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so. Capitula axillary, sessile or subsessile, heterogamous, radiate. Ray-florets female, fertile, in 1-several rows; disk florets bisexual and fertile or the innermost sterile. Phyllaries 4, leafy, in 2 series of opposite pairs. Rays short, broad, 3-4-dentate; disk-florets tubular, 5-lobed. Achenes oblong, usually flattened, surrounded by the persistent receptacular scales. Pappus 0.

Worldwide: 10 species in warm regions of the world

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Enydra fluctuans

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fluctuans Lour.GIDescription, Image

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Flora of Zambia: Enydra
Flora of Zimbabwe: Enydra

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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Enydra
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Enydra
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Enydra
Wikipedia: Enydra
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Enydra
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Enydra

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Enydra.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1516, retrieved 28 March 2023

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