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|accepted_name=Monochoria
|accepted_authority=C. Presl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Reliq. Haenk.
|place=1: 27. 1827
|year=1827
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carigola
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
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|name=Gomphima
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
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|name=Limnostachys
|authority=F. Mueller
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Pontederiaceae;Monochoria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pontederiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Monochoria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 37
|treatment_page=page 38
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual or facultatively perennial, rooting in mud.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem reproduction;stem location;stem location;stem height or length or size;internode shape"><b>Vegetative </b>stems submersed with elongate internodes, or emersed and short.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="flowering-stem location;flowering-stem location;surface habitat"><b>Flowering-</b>stems submersed and extending to water surface, or emersed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf architecture"><b>Sessile </b>leaves forming basal rosette.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf location;leaf location"><b>Petiolate </b>leaves floating or emersed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;apex shape">blade cordate to hastate, apex acute to acuminate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence length;day quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>umbellate or paniculate, up to 30-flowered, elongating in 1–several days;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spathe architecture or shape;extension shape">spathes folded, sometimes with ovate to caudate extension.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower architecture;flower quantity"><b>Flowers:</b> open 1 day only;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="perianth coloration;perianth coloration;tepal fusion;limb lobe fusion;limb lobe shape;limb lobe pubescence;apex shape">perianth with tepals connate basally, blue or white, limb lobes distinct, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, glabrous, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen quantity;anther size or quantity">stamens 6, 1 with anther 2 times larger than others;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="filament architecture;filament pubescence">filaments winged, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther coloration;anther coloration;anther shape">anthers yellow or blue, ovoid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary incompletely 3-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovules many;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style quantity">style 1.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, ovoid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape;wing dehiscence or orientation"><b>Seeds </b>10–200, ovoid, testa with longitudinal wings.</span><!--

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|distribution=Africa;Asia;Australia. This is a poorly understood genus in need of detailed work
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 4 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>This is a poorly understood genus in need of detailed work.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Monochoria
|authority=C. Presl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Carigola;Gomphima;Limnostachys
|basionyms=
|family=Pontederiaceae
|distribution=Africa;Asia;Australia. This is a poorly understood genus in need of detailed work
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Reliq. Haenk.
|publication year=1827
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_2.xml
|genus=Monochoria
|anther coloration=blue;yellow
|anther shape=ovoid
|anther size or quantity=2 times larger than others
|apex shape=acute;acute;acuminate
|blade shape=cordate;hastate
|day quantity=1;several
|extension shape=ovate;caudate
|filament architecture=winged
|filament pubescence=glabrous
|flower architecture=open
|flower quantity=1
|flowering-stem location=emersed;submersed
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit shape=ovoid
|inflorescence architecture=up;30-flowered
|inflorescence arrangement=paniculate
|inflorescence length=elongating
|internode shape=elongate
|leaf architecture=petiolate;sessile
|leaf location=emersed;floating
|limb lobe fusion=distinct
|limb lobe pubescence=glabrous
|limb lobe shape=narrowly ovate;lanceolate
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=3-locular
|ovule quantity=many
|perianth coloration=white;blue
|seed quantity=10;200
|seed shape=ovoid
|spathe architecture or shape=folded
|stamen quantity=1;6
|stem height or length or size=short
|stem location=emersed;submersed
|stem reproduction=vegetative
|style quantity=1
|surface habitat=water
|tepal fusion=connate
|whole_organism architecture=rooting
|whole_organism duration=perennial;annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|wing dehiscence or orientation=longitudinal
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