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|accepted_name=Brasenia
|accepted_authority=Schreber
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|title=Gen. Pl.
|place=1: 372. 1789
|year=1789
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|common_names=Water-shield
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cabombaceae;Brasenia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cabombaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brasenia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Christoph Brasen, 1738-1774, Moravian missionary and plant collector in Greenland and Labrador
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form;part life cycle;part reproduction"><b>Herbs,</b> young vegetative parts heavily coated with mucilage.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf growth form or location"><b>Leaves </b>floating;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole length or size">petiole long.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf-blade arrangement or shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade elliptic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal architecture;sepal shape"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals 3, not petaloid, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="petal quantity;petal shape;auricle quantity;base shape">petals 3, linear-oblong, lacking auricles, base not clawed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens 18-36 (-51), opposite both sepals and petals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="pistil quantity;pistil architecture;pistil architecture or structure in adjective form">pistils 4-18, simple, 1-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="ovule atypical quantity;ovule quantity">ovules (1-) 2;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stigma shape">stigma linear-decurrent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="fruit shape"><b>Fruits </b>slightly to strongly fusiform.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>ovoid, tubercles absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="tubercle presence;x chromosome quantity">x = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Worldwide except Europe;mainly temperate and upland tropics
|discussion=<p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Brasenia is known from the fossil record in Europe although it is not known to grow there currently.</p>
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name=Brasenia
|authority=Schreber
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cabombaceae
|distribution=Worldwide except Europe;mainly temperate and upland tropics
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|genus=Brasenia
|auricle quantity=lacking
|base shape=not clawed
|fruit shape=fusiform
|leaf growth form or location=floating
|leaf-blade arrangement or shape=elliptic
|ovule atypical quantity=1;2
|ovule quantity=2
|part life cycle=young
|part reproduction=vegetative
|petal quantity=3
|petal shape=linear-oblong
|petiole length or size=long
|pistil architecture=simple
|pistil architecture or structure in adjective form=1-locular
|pistil quantity=4;18
|seed shape=ovoid
|sepal architecture=not petaloid
|sepal quantity=3
|sepal shape=linear-oblong;narrowly ovate
|stamen atypical quantity=36;51
|stamen quantity=18;36
|stigma shape=linear-decurrent
|tubercle presence=absent
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=40
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