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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = Alisma
| image = AlismaPlant1.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Alisma plantago-aquatica]]''
| image_width = 200px
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Alismatales]]
| familia = [[Alismataceae]]
| genus = '''''Alisma'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[[Alisma gramineum|A. gramineum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma lanceolatum|A. lanceolatum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma plantago-aquatica|A. plantago-aquatica]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma subcordatum|A. subcordatum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma triviale|A. triviale]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma wahlenbergii|A. wahlenbergii]]''
}}
'''''Alisma''''' is a genus of plants in the [[Alismataceae]] or water-plantain family. The genus consists of [[aquatic]] plants with [[leaves]] either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats. The [[flowers]] are [[hermaphrodite]], and are arranged in [[Inflorescence|panicles]], racemes, or umbels. ''Alisma'' flowers have six [[stamens]], numerous free [[carpels]] in a single whorl, each with 1 ovule, and subventral styles. The fruit is an [[achene]] with a short beak.
The nineteenth century [[Briton|British]] art and social critic [[John Ruskin]] believed that the particular curve of the leaf-ribs of ''Alisma'' represented a model of 'divine proportion' and helped shape his theory of [[Gothic architecture]].
==Reference==
*Bjorkqvist, I., in Op. Bot. (Lund)17:1 - 128 (1967); 19:1 - 138 (1968)
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[[Category:Alismatales]]
{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = Alisma
| image = AlismaPlant1.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Alisma plantago-aquatica]]''
| image_width = 200px
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Alismatales]]
| familia = [[Alismataceae]]
| genus = '''''Alisma'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[[Alisma gramineum|A. gramineum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma lanceolatum|A. lanceolatum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma plantago-aquatica|A. plantago-aquatica]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma subcordatum|A. subcordatum]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma triviale|A. triviale]]''<br/>
''[[Alisma wahlenbergii|A. wahlenbergii]]''
}}
'''''Alisma''''' is a genus of plants in the [[Alismataceae]] or water-plantain family. The genus consists of [[aquatic]] plants with [[leaves]] either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats. The [[flowers]] are [[hermaphrodite]], and are arranged in [[Inflorescence|panicles]], racemes, or umbels. ''Alisma'' flowers have six [[stamens]], numerous free [[carpels]] in a single whorl, each with 1 ovule, and subventral styles. The fruit is an [[achene]] with a short beak.
The nineteenth century [[Briton|British]] art and social critic [[John Ruskin]] believed that the particular curve of the leaf-ribs of ''Alisma'' represented a model of 'divine proportion' and helped shape his theory of [[Gothic architecture]].
==Reference==
*Bjorkqvist, I., in Op. Bot. (Lund)17:1 - 128 (1967); 19:1 - 138 (1968)
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[[Category:Alismatales]]
