Hydatellaceae
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Hydatellaceae are a family of small, aquatic flowering plants. The family consists of tiny, relatively simple plants occurring in Australasia and India. It was formerly considered to be related to the grasses and sedges (order Poales), but has been reassigned to the order Nymphaeales as a result of DNA and morphological analyses showing that it represents one of the earliest groups to split off in flowering-plant phylogeny, rather than having a close relationship to monocots, which it bears a superficial resemblance to due to convergent evolution.[4] The family includes only the genus Trithuria, which has at least 13 species, although species diversity in the family has probably been substantially underestimated.[5]
Hydatellaceae | |
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Botanical illustration of Trithuria australis from 1904 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Order: | Nymphaeales |
Family: | Hydatellaceae U.Hamann[1][2] |
Genera[3] | |
Trithuria Hook.f. |