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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Caldesia''
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Alismatales]]
| familia = [[Alismataceae]]
| genus = '''''Caldesia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Filippo Parlatore|Parl.]]
}}
'''''Caldesia''''' is a genus of aquatic plants.
==Description==
Leaves all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Stamens 6(-11). Carpels few or numerous in a single whorl, free, each with 1 ovule; styles subventral. Fruitlets drupaceous, with woody endocarp and spongy exocarp, swollen, with a short subventral beak, smooth or with tubercles or spines.
==Species==
* ''C. parnassifolia'' (L.) Parl. syn. ''Alisma parnassifolium'' L.
<!-- and maybe others? IPNI list several, but have they all been moved to Alisma? -->
[[Category:Alismatales]]
| name = ''Caldesia''
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Alismatales]]
| familia = [[Alismataceae]]
| genus = '''''Caldesia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Filippo Parlatore|Parl.]]
}}
'''''Caldesia''''' is a genus of aquatic plants.
==Description==
Leaves all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Stamens 6(-11). Carpels few or numerous in a single whorl, free, each with 1 ovule; styles subventral. Fruitlets drupaceous, with woody endocarp and spongy exocarp, swollen, with a short subventral beak, smooth or with tubercles or spines.
==Species==
* ''C. parnassifolia'' (L.) Parl. syn. ''Alisma parnassifolium'' L.
<!-- and maybe others? IPNI list several, but have they all been moved to Alisma? -->
[[Category:Alismatales]]
