The Limnocharitaceae include three genera, and these, in turn comprise eight species.[3] Some of the species are closely related and, consequently, hard to identify.[3]Butomopsis is monospecific (B. latifolia) and indigenous to tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. Limnocharis and Hydrocleys are native to the neotropics. Limnocharis has two species. Limnocharis flava is grown as a potherb in India and Isan, Thailand.[4] It has become a weed in Indonesia.[2] It is sometimes sold as an ornamental for aquaria. Hydrocleys has five species. Hydrocleys nymphoides is common in water gardens, and probably for this reason, it is persistent in the wild in Florida and Texas.[5]
Some authors have placed Butomus in the Limnocharitaceae because of its laminar placentation and follicular fruit, but it is now placed in the monospecific family Butomaceae.
The Limnocharitaceae are closely related to the Alismataceae, but differ from them by the fully dehiscent fruit, numerous ovules per carpel, and laminar placentation. Members of both of these families have laticifers, petioles, a terminal pore on each leaf, a sepaloid calyx, and thin, evanescent petals.
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Christopher D.K. Cook and Ole Seberg. 2007. "Limnocharitaceae". pages 379-380. In: Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. 2007. Flowering Plant Families of the World. Firefly Books: Ontario, Canada. ISBN978-1-55407-206-4.
Robert R. Haynes and Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen. 1992. "The Limnocharitaceae" (Flora Neotropica monograph 56). The New York Botanical Garden: New York, NY, USA.
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