Brasenia
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| Brasenia schreberi J. F. Gmel. |
Brasenia is a waterplant genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one extant species widely distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions of the world. Fossil Brasenia is present in Europe although it does not occur there now. Brasenia schreberi (syn. B. nymphoides, B. peltata) has the vernacular name water-shield (also watershield or water shield). Unlike other waterlilies the flowers of Brasenia are wind pollinated and in consequence large quantities of dry, easily dispersed pollen are produced.
The genus commemorates the surgeon and Moravian missionary Christoph Brasen (1738-1774), who was the first superintendent of the Moravian mission at Nain in Labrador.
[edit] References
Mackenzie L. Taylor & Jeffrey M. Osborn (2006) Pollen ontogeny in Brasenia (Cabombaceae, Nymphaeales). American Journal of Botany 93: 344-356
[edit] External links
- Washington State Department of Ecology: Brasenia schreberi
- Jepson Manual Treatment
- USDA Plants Profile
- Photo gallery
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