Albidella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae. It includes four species native to the tropics.
Species Four species are accepted. Albidella acanthocarpa Albidella glandulosa Albidella nymphaeifolia Albidella oligococca
Etymology Albidella is a taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the confamilial genus Baldellia. The latter name is a taxonomic patronym honoring the Italian nobleman Bartolommeo Bartoloni-Baldelli.
Description This genus markedly differs from Echinodorus by a typical paniculate inflorescence shaped as a regular pyramid. Flowering stalk is 40 – 50 cm tall, inflorescence up to 12 – 20 cm long, flowers arranged in 2 - 6 whorls, bracts of the lower whorl reach a length of 2.5 – 4 cm and a width of 0.5 - 0.8 cm, bracts in further whorls being only 2 – 5 mm long. Corolla white, stamens usually 9. Compound fruit comprises maximum 20 achenes, each 1.4 - 1.6 mm long x 1 mm wide with a broad crested keel and with crested ribs and 1 or 2 long glands on each face, beak 0.2 mm long.Pichon, Marcel. 1946. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Phanérogramie, 12: 174-175
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External links Herbarium specimen - Belize photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia photo of herbarium specimen at Natural History Museum (London), collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia Encyclopedia of Life Photos of Albidella nymphaeifolia