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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Water lily

         The phrase "water lily" is used to describe aquatic plants of the following families, which have lily pads: Nymphaeaceae and Nelumbonaceae. 
         Nymphaeaceae live in freshwater areas in temperate and tropical climates around the world. Nelumbonaceae is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, commonly known as lotus.
         Flowers are solitary, bisexual, radial, with a long pedicel and usually floating or raised above the surface of the water, with girdling vascular bundles in receptacle. Tepals are 4-12, distinct to connate, imbricate, and often petal-like. Petals lacks or 8 to numerous, inconspicuous to showy, often intergrading with stamens. Stamens are 3 to numerous, the innermost sometimes represented by staminodes. Filaments are distinct, free or adnate to petaloid staminodes, slender and well differentiated from anthers to laminar and poorly differentiated from anthers; pollen grains usually monosulcate or lacking apertures.

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