Burnatia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Alismataceae
Genus: Burnatia
Species: B. alismatoides – B. enneandra – B. oblonga
Name

Burnatia Micheli, 1881.
References

The International Plant Names Index Burnatia.
Micheli, Marc, 1881: Monographiae Phanerogamarum Prodromi nunc Continuato, nunc Revisio Auctoribus Alphonso et Casimir de Candolle Aliisque Botanicis Ultra Memoratis. Paris, iii. 81.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Burnatia. .

Burnatia is a genus in the family Alismataceae. It includes only one currently recognized species, Burnatia enneandra. It is native to tropical and southern Africa from Senegal to Tanzania to South Africa.[1][2] Among genera of the Alismataceae, it can be distinguished by not having a differentiated perianth (in Burnatia the petals are reduced), and being dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate individuals. Male flowers have 6 to 9 stamens and female flowers have many carpels and up to 2 staminodia.[3]
References

"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
de, Candolle, Alphonse; de, Candolle, Casimir (1881-01-01). "Monographiæ phanerogamarum". 3.
Haynes, R. R.; Les, D. H.; Holm-Nielsen, L. B. (1998). "Alismataceae". Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. pp. 11–18. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3_4. ISBN 978-3-642-08378-5.