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Volume II (1970) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae
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Zannichellia L.

ZANNICHELLIA Linn., 1753

Monoec. Infl. of 1 ♂ and several ♀. ♂ of a single stamen; anther 2-celled; pollen spherical. Carpels enclosed in hyaline cup-shaped membrane, shortly stipitate; ovary globose; style short; stigma obliquely peltate. Fr. ± arcuate. Rhizome threadlike, rooting at nodes and giving off long slender branches. Lvs in apparent whorls of 3–4 separated by long internodes; stipules colourless, membr., free from lf-base, sheathing stem, soon deciduous. 1–2 spp. of fresh water, almost worldwide.

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