NYMPHAEACEAE - Water Lily Family
Perennial aquatic herbs with large
rhizomes
Leaves alternate, floating, pinnately
veined, long-petiolate, peltate
Flowers axillary or solitary, bisexual,
actinomorphic
Seed with scanty endosperm but with abundant perisperm,
perisperm is derived from the nucellus, which is
a chief part of the young ovule
5 genera, 80 species
Economic importance - horticultural (water
lilies)
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