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Brasenia
Family: Cabombaceae
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John. H. Wiersema in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Herbs , young vegetative parts heavily coated with mucilage. Leaves floating; petiole long. Leaf blade elliptic. Flowers: sepals 3, not petaloid, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate; petals 3, linear-oblong, lacking auricles, base not clawed; stamens 18-36(-51), opposite both sepals and petals; pistils 4-18, simple, 1-locular; ovules (1-)2; stigma linear-decurrent. Fruits slightly to strongly fusiform. Seeds ovoid, tubercles absent. x = 40. Brasenia is known from the fossil record in Europe although it is not known to grow there currently.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Sep somewhat petaloid, colored within; stamens 12-18, or reputedly to 36; filaments of 2 lengths; anthers introrse, pistils 4-8; submerged parts covered with a mucilaginous jelly; lvs alternate, mostly crowded near the summit, long-petioled, with floating, centrally peltate blade. Monospecific

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Talladega National Forest NEON (TALL) plants - Ozarks Complex (D08)
Brasenia schreberi
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